A look at the winner of the 2014 literature Nobel
French author Patrick Modiano, 69, whose novel “Rue des Boutiques Obscures” — English title: “Missing Person” — won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
October 9, 2014
French author Patrick Modiano, 69, whose novel “Rue des Boutiques Obscures” — English title: “Missing Person” — won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant” prose.
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy. Here is a list of previous winners of the award since 1980:
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