Patrick Modiano
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 is awarded to the French author Patrick Modiano“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”.
Jean Patrick Modiano; born 30 July 1945) is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Early and personal life
Jean Patrick Modiano was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, on July 30, 1945. His father, Albert Modiano (1912–77, born in Paris), was of Italian Jewish origin; on his paternal side he was descended from a Sephardic family of Thessaloniki, Greece. His mother, Louisa Colpijn (1918-2015), was a Belgian (Flemish) actress also known as Louisa Colpeyn. Modiano's parents met in occupied Paris during World War II and began their relationship semi-clandestinely (they separated shortly after Patrick's birth). His father had refused to wear the Yellow badge and did not turn himself in when Paris Jews were rounded up for deportation to Nazi concentration camps He was picked up in February 1942, and narrowly missed being deported, after an intervention from a friend.During the war years Albert did business on the black market, hanging around with the Carlingue, the French Gestapo auxiliaries Its leaders were recruited from the underworld. Albert Modiano never clearly spoke of this period to his son before his death in 1977https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Modiano
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