Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1945, to a father of Italian Jewish origin and a Flemish actress mother. He was educated in boarding schools, then at the lycée Henri-IV, and Raymond Queneau introduced him to the world of publishing. He published his first novel with Gallimard in 1968, received the Prix Goncourt in 1978 and co-wrote a screenplay with Louis Malle. His books, more than forty, return to memory, identity and the years of the Occupation; he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014.

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• NarrativeThe Search WarrantDora BruderPatrick Modiano · 1997Literature