Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 July 1945
CountryFrance
A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.