Congratulations to Patrick Modiano, the French writer whose moody, terse and occasionally dreamlike novels are often set during the Nazi occupation of France, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, called Mr. Modiano “a Marcel Proust of our time,” noting that his works resonate with one another thematically and are “always variations of the same thing, about memory, about loss, about identity, about seeking.” Fans and publishers of Mr. Modiano, 69, celebrated his victory as a chance for him to finally gain international recognition for a body of work that spans nearly five decades, and as recognition of French literary glory in the tradition of fellow Nobelists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. “This prize will help raise the global profile of one of our consummate writers,” said Anne Ghisoli, the director of Librairie Gallimard, a bookstore in Paris that is majority owned by Mr. Modiano’s publisher, Gallimard. “He is a master of writing on memory and occupation, which haunt and inform his work. He is a chronicler of Paris, its streets, its past and its present.” nytimes/2014/10/10/books/patrick-modiano-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?_r=0
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:11:26 +0000
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