French author Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Literature - TopicsExpress



          

French author Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Literature prize bbc/news/entertainment-arts-29553516 Writers in French have quite a record for the Nobel Prize in Literature: Sully Prudhomme (1901), Frédéric Mistral (1904), Maurice Maeterlinck (1911), Romain Rolland (1915), Anatole France (1921), Henri Bergson (1927), Roger Martin du Gard (1937), André Gide (1947), François Mauriac (1952), Albert Camus (1957), Saint-John Perse (1960), Jean-Paul Sartre(1964), Claude Simon (1980), J. M. G. Le Clézio (2008), Patrick Modiano (2014). There were some born elsewhere who were simply living in France when they were awarded. There was Samuel Beckett, who wrote in both English and French.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:02:11 +0000

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