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2014 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Patrick Modiano (born 1945) "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation." He became the 15th Frenchman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature after J. M. G. Le Clézio in 2008. Laureate Patrick Modiano's stories are often characterized by their exploration of universal but difficult questions, at the same time as they are grounded in everyday settings and historical events like in ''La Place de l'Étoile (novel), La Place de l'Étoile'' ("The Place of the Star", 1968). His works center around subjects like memory, oblivion, identity, and guilt as in ''Missing Person (novel), Rue des Boutiques Obscures'' ("Missing Person", 1978) and ''Dora Bruder'' (1997). The city of Paris plays a central role in his writing – ''Accident nocturne'' ("Paris Nocturne", 2003), and his stories are often based on events that occurred during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize Medal
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