Patrick Modiano

Nobel Prize in Literature 2014

“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 is a French novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014 for the art of memory with which he evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation. His novels often explore memory, identity, and the German occupation of France.