"Enfances" is an essay written by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 author and Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize in Literature

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

 J. M. G. Le Clézio for a book of the same name which was co-written by Brigitte Fossey and set to photographs by Christophe Kuhn.

Purpose

The essay in "Enfances" was written by Le Clézio to contribute to this book of photographs.

French

It was originally published in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 in 2003 and there is no English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 translation published to date.

as published by "Enfants réfugiés du monde"

Photographs were taken by Christophe Kuhn .
48 pages."Enfances" was co-written by Brigitte Fossey.

Photography and Neorealism

Le Clézio has written about the impact of visual representation in media such as cinema and photography.Le Clézio has written texts for numerous books of photographs as well as "Enfances".

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