Patrick modiano short biography
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Modiano’s first novel appeared at a moment when the core tenet of French postwar identity was beginning to crumble.Richard Dumas / Agence VU
The committee in charge of awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature likes to crown its laureates with pronouncements that can seem as incomprehensible as its choice of winner often does. J. M. G. Le Clézio, the French novelist who won in 2008, was praised as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”; J. M. Coetzee, 2003’s laureate, “in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider”; Harold Pinter, who won in 2005, alliteratively “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.” (It was a relief to learn, last year, that Alice Munro was simply a “master of the contemporary short story.”)
Today, the prize went to the French novelist Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with whi
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Patrick Modiano
French novelist (born 1945)
"Modiano" redirects here. For other uses, see Modiano (disambiguation).
Jean Patrick Modiano (French:[ʒɑ̃patʁikmɔdjano]; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a Frenchnovelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.[1]
In more than 40 books, Modiano has 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 is 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 Eu
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Everything you need to know about Nobel Literature Prize winner Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano, the French novelist whose work explores ideas of isolation and identity during the Nazi occupation of France, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday morning.
Here’s everything you need to know to catch up on who he is, and why it’s a big deal that he was awarded the prize this year:
1) Who is Patrick Modiano?
Patrick Modiano is a French novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday morning. He has published 27 novels, in addition to children’s books and two screenplays. The French word “modianesque” has come to refer to a particularly ambiguous person or situation, as a nod to Modiano’s reclusive, mysterious nature.
Modiano is known for novels that try to parse out the intrinsics of identity bygd circling through a character’s past. Much of his work takes place in Paris and describes the city amid the Nazi Occupation during the Second W