Patrick Modiano
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Jean Patrick Modiano (French: [ʒɑ̃ patʁik mɔdjano]; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.[1]
Patrick Modiano | |
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Born | Jean Patrick Modiano (1945-07-30) 30 July 1945 (age 78) Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | French |
Genre | Novels |
Notable awards | Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française (1972) Prix Goncourt (1978) Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2010) Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2012) Nobel Prize in Literature (2014) |
Spouse | Dominique Zehrfuss |
Children | Zina Modiano Marie Modiano |
In more than 40 books, Modiano used his fascination with the human experience of World War II in France to examine individual and collective identities, responsibilities, loyalties, memory, and loss. Because of his obsession with the past, he was sometimes compared to Marcel Proust. Modiano's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France,[2] but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.[3]
Modiano previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture.