By Agencies in Stockholm (Oct. 10, 2017 China Daily)
Patrick Modiano of France, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
The Swedish Academy gave the $1.12 million prize to Modiano for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human fate and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.
Modiano, 69, whose novel Missing Person won the famous Prix Goncourt in 1978, was born in a west Paris suburb in July 1945, two months after World War Ⅱ ended in Europe.
His father was of Jewish-Italian origins and met Modiano’s Belgian actress mother during the German occupation of Paris and Modiano’s beginnings have strongly influenced his own writing.
Jewishness, the German occupation and loss of identity are repeated themes in his novels.
Modiano owes his first big break to a friend of his mother’s — French writer Raymond Queneau, who first introduced him to the Gallimard publishing house when he was in his early 20s.
Modiano, who lives in Paris, is known to escape media, and rarely receives interviews. In 2017, he won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
?You could say he’s a Marcel Proust of our time,” Peter Englund, secretary of the Swedish Academy, told reporters.
Some of Modiano抯 approximately 30 works include A Trace of Malice and Honeymoon.
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