Patrick Modiano has been named the 111th winner of the Nobel prize for
literature.
The 69-year-old is the 15th French writer to win the prestigious prize,
worth 8m kronor ($1.1m or £700,000).
His name was announced at a short ceremony in Stockholm with Peter
Englund, the Nobel Academy’s permanent secretary, reading a citation
which said Modiano won “for the art of memory with which he has evoked
the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the
occupation”.
Modiano is well known in France but something of an unknown quantity
for even widely read people in other countries. His best known novel is
probably Missing Person, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in
1978 and is about a detective who loses his memory and endeavours to
find it.
The writer was born in a west Paris suburb two months after the second
world war ended in Europe in July 1945.
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