Patrick Modiano (1945) - French novelist. Nobel Prize Literature 2014. Photo by Nicolas Hidiroglou, 2007

A young writer finds his voice on the radio

Patrick Modiano, 1945 / Francia, 2014

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‘The Occupation Trilogy’ and More, by Patrick Modiano - NYTimes.com

10 posts published by Kinofrau during June 2012

The French writer Patrick Modiano—who, until he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2014, was virtually unknown in the English-speaking world—has been steadily building a curiously consistent oeuvre since the 1970s. His novels, typically slim, quick reads, all share a complex but numinous mythos, one whose tenuous interconnections are threaded together by the streets …

The Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has returned again and again to the same themes: the pull of the past and the blurring of moral boundaries.

Patrick Modiano

How the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize uses literature to tell us something historians can’t.