J. M. G. Le Clézio was awarded what annual recognition to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"?
La Quarantaine (novel) La Quarantaine is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio .
Noma Award for Publishing in Africa The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa ("French:Le Prix Noma de Publication en Afrique"), which ran from 1980-2009, was an annual $10,000 prize for outstanding African writers and scholars who published in Africa. Within four years of its establishment, the prize "had become the major book award in Africa". It was one of the series of Noma Prizes.