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). The writer was born in a west Paris suburb two months after the second world war ended in Europe in July 1945. 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. Jewishness, the Nazi occupation and loss of identity are recurrent themes in his novels. Modiano is known to shun media, and rarely accords interviews
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:54:00 +0000
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