Fénéon Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 21 (1969) Winner
Patrick Modiano
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Patrick Modiano
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1945-07-30 （Boulogne-Billancourt, France）
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
- Active Years
- 1968-
- Memberships
- Member of the Prix Contrepoint jury
- Influenced By
- Raymond Queneau, Marcel Proust
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée Henri-IV | — | — | — | 初等〜中等教育 | France |
| Sorbonne (University of Paris) | — | — | — | 1965（在籍・単位取得なし） | France |
Lycée Henri-IV
Period:
初等〜中等教育
Year of Graduation:
1964
Country:
France
Completed secondary education. Later attended the Sorbonne but did not obtain a degree.
Sorbonne (University of Paris)
Period:
1965（在籍・単位取得なし）
Country:
France
Enrolled in 1965 to defer military service; did not complete a degree.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Fénéon Prize
1968
Work:
La Place de l'Étoile
Result:
受賞
Prix Roger-Nimier
1968
Work:
La Place de l'Étoile
Result:
受賞
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1972
Work:
Ring Roads
Organization:
Académie française
Result:
受賞
Prix Goncourt
1978
Work:
Missing Person
Result:
受賞
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
2010
Work:
For his body of work
Organization:
Institut de France
Result:
受賞
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
2012
Work:
For his body of work
Result:
受賞
Nobel Prize in Literature
2014
Work:
For the art of memory
Organization:
Swedish Academy
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1 appearances
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Edition 58 (1972) Winner
Prix Goncourt
1 appearances
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Edition 76 (1978) Winner
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 47 (2012) Winner
Nobel Prize in Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 107 (2014) Winner
Works
Major Works
La Place de l'Étoile
1968 Novel (wartime, autofiction elements)A wartime novel about a Jewish collaborator; an early work exploring memory and moral ambiguity.
MemoryWorld War IIIdentityGuilt and shame
Translations
- English translation included in The Occupation Trilogy (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Missing Person
1978 Novel (detective-like, memory labyrinth)The protagonist suffers from amnesia and searches for his past; a portrayal of lost identity and fragmented memory.
Lost memorySelf-searchParis
Translations
- English translation: Missing Person
Dora Bruder
1997 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.
The HolocaustRecovery of memoryHistory and the individual
Translations
- English translations: The Search Warrant / Dora Bruder
Pedigree: A Memoir
2004 Memoir / AutobiographicalA memoir that calmly recounts family history and childhood memories, searching for origins through fragments.
Family historyLossMemory
Translations
- English translation: Pedigree: A Memoir
L'Horizon
2011 NovelFollows Jean Bosmans, haunted by his mother's ghost, as he recalls youth and searches for a vanished love; explores loss and memory.
DisappearanceNostalgiaTraces of time
Translations
- Translated into English
Bibliography
- 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)
Adaptations
- 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)
Translations of Works
- Works translated into more than 30 languages including English, German, Chinese
- Major English translators: Mark Polizzotti, Frank Wynne, Damion Searls, others
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Lyrical and economical proseAutofictional blending of autobiography and fictionFragmentary and repetitive narration
- Recurring Motifs
- Memory and oblivionThe Occupation (WWII) periodParisian cityscapeSearch for lost identity
Legacy
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.
Quotes
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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.”
Source: Swedish Academy (Nobel citation) (2014) -
“He uses almost non-existent documentation to endow the past with entrancing life.”
Source: Award ceremony speech (Jesper Svenbro) (2014)
Trivia
- 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