Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano (b. 1945) — France, writing in French. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014.
“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation.” — The Nobel Committee citation
About Patrick Modiano
French novelist haunted by memory, identity, and Paris under the German Occupation. His writing is thin and mist-like, forever tracing the faint tracks of people who have vanished.