French novelist Patrick Modiano, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature 2014. The Swedish committee praised the 69-year-old French writer for “the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.” The award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (£691,000).
Patrick Modiano previously won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for his lifetime achievement in 2010. His novel "Missing Person" won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
Patrick Modiano previously won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for his lifetime achievement in 2010. His novel "Missing Person" won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
