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Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.
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culture · French novelist (born 1945) · screenwriter · writer · playwright · lyricist · essayist · also Patrick Modiano, Jean Patrick Modiano, Modiano
Born 30 July 1945 · Q222944
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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2019· 1 entry
Psychology Today: Intergenerational Trauma: Patrick Modiano
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano – new translation of Nobel prize-winner's small masterpiece
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The Guardian: After the Circus by Patrick Modiano – extract
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Patrick Modiano: ‘I became a prisoner of my memories of Paris’
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2014· 7 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.
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The Guardian: Patrick Modiano accepts Nobel prize, confident of literature’s future
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The Guardian: Extract: Flowers of Ruin by Patrick Modiano
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The Guardian: Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano – three novellas from the Nobel laureate
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The Guardian: Patrick Modiano: an appreciation of the Nobel prize in literature winner
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded The prize of the BNF (2011).
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Awarded Prix Marguerite Duras (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2010).
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Awarded Preis der SWR-Bestenliste (2010).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Monnet Prize (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand (2000).
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1996).
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Awarded Grand prix national des Lettres (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1994).
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1985· 4 entries
“Bywają takie tajemnicze istoty – zawsze te same – trzymające straż na wszystkich rozstajach ludzkiego życia.”
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“Okno w jej pokoju w Hermitage’u było uchylone i słyszałem regularny stukot piłeczek tenisowych, dalekie okrzyki graczy. Skoro wciąż jeszcze istnieli sympatyczni, podnoszący na duchu głupcy, którzy, ubrani w białe stroje, przerzucali piłki nad siatką, znaczyło to, że ziemia nadal się kręci i że mamy przed sobą jeszcze kilka godzin wytchnienia.”
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“(...) w każdej chwili trzeba być gotowym do dalszej drogi i każdy pokój, w którym przyszło się zatrzymać, traktować jako przystań tymczasową.”
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“Do czegóż bowiem mogłem aspirować w tym małym kraju? Handel antykami? Praca kolportera książek? Kariera literata, gaduły i zmarzlucha? Żaden z tych zawodów nie budził mojego entuzjazmu.”
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Prince Pierre Award (1984).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Goncourt for Missing Person (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded prix des Libraires for Villa Triste (1976).
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1973· 1 entry
Modiano co-wrote the screenplay of Lacombe, Lucien with Louis Malle who directed the film
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture (1972).
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1970· 1 entry
Modiano married Dominique Zehrfuss
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Fénéon Prize for literature (1969).
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Roger Nimier Prix (1968).
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At the age of 22, Modiano published his first book La Place de l'Étoile, a wartime novel about a Jewish collaborator, after having read the manuscript to Queneau
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1965· 1 entry
Enrolled at the Sorbonne to qualify for a college deferment from the military draft, but did not obtain a degree
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-07-30.
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