Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been honored with an array of prizes, including the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca by the Institut de France for lifetime achievement and the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in Paris.

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One’s Head Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants

January 27, 2020 By Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano: To Flee a Parisian Crime Scene

"I ended up shoving the gun in the bottom of a trash can."

October 25, 2018 By Patrick Modiano

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