French author Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

Noted French novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature.

The 69-year-old Modiano was honoured with numerous awards including the Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française.

While announcing the award, Nobel committee 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.”

His debut novel La Place de l’Étoile was published in 1968, the next year another novel La Ronde de nuit hit the market with English translation Night Rounds. His famous work  Les Boulevards de ceinture was published in 1972. His last work L’Herbe de nuit was published in 2012.

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