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France’s Patrick Modiano wins literature Nobel

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Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Oct. 9 for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant” prose.

Modiano, 69, is an acclaimed writer in France but not well known in the English-speaking world. The Swedish Academy said it gave the prize worth 8 million kronor (¥120 million) to the Paris resident for evoking “the most ungraspable human destinies” and uncovering life behind the Nazi occupation. (AP)

ノーベル文学賞は仏作家、パトリック・モディアノ氏

スウェーデン・アカデミーは10月９日、ノーベル文学賞を仏作家パトリック・モディアノ氏に授与すると発表した。代表作は『暗いブティック通り』『イヴォンヌの香り』など。

The Japan Times ST: October 24, 2014