The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014
Awarded on: 2014-10-09
"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation"
Patrick Modiano
Born: 1945-07-30 in Paris, France
Gender: male
Field: French novelist (born 1945)
Biography
Jean Patrick Modiano, 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.