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第21回(1969年) Winner
Patrick Modiano
パトリック・モディアノ
Patrick Modiano
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1945-07-30 (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)
- 国籍
- France
- 言語
- French
経歴
- 職業
- Novelist
- 活動期間
- 1968年〜
- 所属団体
- Member of the Prix Contrepoint jury
- 影響を受けた人物
- Raymond Queneau, Marcel Proust
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée Henri-IV | — | — | — | 初等〜中等教育 | France |
| Sorbonne (University of Paris) | — | — | — | 1965(在籍・単位取得なし) | France |
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Fénéon Prize | La Place de l'Étoile | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1968 | Prix Roger-Nimier | La Place de l'Étoile | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1972 | Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française | Ring Roads | — | Académie française | 受賞 |
| 1978 | Prix Goncourt | Missing Person | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2010 | Prix mondial Cino Del Duca | For his body of work | — | Institut de France | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Austrian State Prize for European Literature | For his body of work | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Nobel Prize in Literature | For the art of memory | — | Swedish Academy | 受賞 |
受賞・候補エディション
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第58回(1972年) Winner
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第76回(1978年) Winner
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第47回(2012年) Winner
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第107回(2014年) Winner
作品
代表作
La Place de l'Étoile
1968年 Novel (wartime, autofiction elements)A wartime novel about a Jewish collaborator; an early work exploring memory and moral ambiguity.
- English translation included in The Occupation Trilogy (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Missing Person
1978年 Novel (detective-like, memory labyrinth)The protagonist suffers from amnesia and searches for his past; a portrayal of lost identity and fragmented memory.
- English translation: Missing Person
Dora Bruder
1997年 Hybrid biography/autobiography/detectiveTracing the story of a teenage girl found in a 1941 missing-person notice; a reconstruction that blends biography, autobiography and investigation.
- English translations: The Search Warrant / Dora Bruder
Pedigree: A Memoir
2004年 Memoir / AutobiographicalA memoir that calmly recounts family history and childhood memories, searching for origins through fragments.
- English translation: Pedigree: A Memoir
L'Horizon
2011年 NovelFollows Jean Bosmans, haunted by his mother's ghost, as he recalls youth and searches for a vanished love; explores loss and memory.
- Translated into English
全著作
- La Place de l'Étoile (1968)
- The Night Watch / Night Rounds (1969)
- Ring Roads (1972)
- Missing Person (1978)
- Dora Bruder (1997)
- Pedigree: A Memoir (2004)
- So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood (2014)
翻案
- Une jeunesse (film, 1983)
- Le Parfum d'Yvonne (from Villa Triste, 1994)
- Te quiero (from Dimanches d'août, 2001)
- Charell (short film, 2006, from De si braves garçons)
作品の翻訳
- Works translated into more than 30 languages including English, German, Chinese
- Major English translators: Mark Polizzotti, Frank Wynne, Damion Searls, others
作風・主題
- 文体
- Lyrical and economical proseAutofictional blending of autobiography and fictionFragmentary and repetitive narration
- 頻出モチーフ
- Memory and oblivionThe Occupation (WWII) periodParisian cityscapeSearch for lost identity
評価・遺産
Regarded as one of contemporary France's significant writers for his literary treatment of memory and the traces of the past. International recognition rose after the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
引用
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“For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
出典: Swedish Academy (Nobel citation) (2014年) -
“He uses almost non-existent documentation to endow the past with entrancing life.”
出典: Award ceremony speech (Jesper Svenbro) (2014年)
豆知識
- First language in childhood was Flemish, taught by his maternal grandparents
- Paternal family of Italo-Jewish origin, with roots in Thessaloniki
- Before the Nobel Prize, many of his major works had not been translated into English