Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
16 Facts About Patrick Modiano
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Patrick Modiano is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.
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In more than 40 books, Modiano used his fascination with the human experience of World War II in France to examine individual and collective identities, responsibilities, loyalties, memory, and loss.
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Patrick Modiano's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Patrick Modiano 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'Academie francaise for Les Boulevards de ceinture.
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Jean Patrick Modiano was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris on July 30,1945.
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Patrick Modiano's mother, Louisa Colpeyn, was a Belgian actress.
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Patrick Modiano's father had refused to wear the Yellow badge and did not turn himself in when Paris Jews were rounded up for deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
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Patrick Modiano was picked up in February 1942, and narrowly missed being deported, after an intervention from a friend.
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Patrick Modiano was initially brought up by his maternal grandparents who taught him Flemish as his first language.
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Patrick Modiano was enrolled by his father in hypokhagne against his will and soon stopped attending classes.
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Patrick Modiano's meeting with Queneau, author of Zazie dans le metro, was crucial.
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In 1968 at the age of 22, Patrick Modiano published his first book La Place de l'Etoile, a wartime novel about a Jewish collaborator, after having read the manuscript to Queneau.
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In 1973, Patrick Modiano co-wrote the screenplay of Lacombe, Lucien, a film co-written and directed by Louis Malle; it focuses on a boy joining the fascist Milice after being denied admission to the French Resistance.
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Patrick Modiano wrote by piecing together newspaper cuttings, vague testimonies and old telephone directories, looking at outsider living on the outskirts of the city.
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Patrick Modiano is one of the 8 members of the jury of the French literary award Prix Contrepoint.