Patrick Modiano

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Jean Patrick Modiano (born 30 July 1945), also known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

He received the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Institut de France's for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture.

His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been lauded in and around France, but the majority of his books had not been translated into English before he was given the Nobel Prize.

Early and personal life

On July 30, 1945, Jean Patrick Modiano was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a commune in Paris's western suburbs. Albert Modiano (1912–77), a Jewish-Italian immigrant, descended from the well-known Italo-Jewish Modiano family of Thessaloniki, Greece, and he was born in Paris. Louisa Colpeyn (1918–2015), a Belgian (Flemish) actress, was his mother. Modiano's parents met in occupied Paris during World War II and began their friendship semi-clandestinely (they separated shortly after Patrick's birth). When Paris Jews were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps, his father refused to wear the Yellow badge and did not turn himself in. After an intervention by a friend, he was picked up in February 1942 and barely escaped being deported. Albert was active on the underground during the war years and was accused of being connected with the Carlingue, the French Gestapo's who recruited its leaders from the underworld. Albert Modiano never talked about this period with his son before his death in 1977.

Patrick Modiano's childhood was spent in a special setting. He was first introduced by his maternal grandparents, who taught him Flemish as his first language. Rudy, his two-year-old brother, who died of a disease from 1967 to 1982, brought him closer to his two-year-old brother, Rudy, who died of a disease on tour (Patrick Modiano dedicated his work from 1967 to 1982 to his brother). Modiano, recalling this sad period in his acclaimed memoir Un Pedigree (2005), said, "I couldn't write an autobiography, which is why I titled it a 'pedigree': It's a book less about what others, mainly my parents, did to me."

Modiano attended École du Montcel primary school in Jouy-en-Josas, Collège Saint-Joseph de Thônes in Haute-Savoie, and then at the Lycée Henri-IV high school in Paris as an infant. While he was at Henri-IV, he learned geometry from writer Raymond Queneau, who was a friend of Modiano's mother. In 1964, he obtained his baccalauréat in Annecy. He was enrolled in hypokhâgne against his will and soon stopped attending classes. In 1965, he enrolled at the Sorbonne in order to have a college deferment to draft, but he did not obtain a degree.

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Writing career

Queneau, the creator of Zazie dans le métro, was crucial in his meeting. It was Queneau who introduced Modiano to the literary world, giving him the opportunity to attend a cocktail party hosted by his new publisher Éditions Gallimard. Modiano wrote his first book La Place de l'Étoile, a wartime memoir about a Jewish collaborator, in 1968, after having read the manuscript to Queneau. The novel offended his father so much that he ordered to buy all existing copies of the novel. Modiano's father had called his father to request a little financial assistance earlier (1959), but his father had refused him. Patrick's mother called the police in response, and his father sent Patrick to the father's apartment to request a tardy child-support payment. Modiano's first book, which was a winner of the Fénéon Prize and Roger Nimier Prize, has been about "the pull of the past, the threat of disappearance, the blurring of moral boundaries, and the blurring of moral boundaries," the "shadow side of the soul."

The German translation of La Place de l'Étoile won Modiano's Modiano's SWR-Bestenliste (prize of the Southwest Radio Best-of List), which was praised as a key post-Holocaust work by the Südwestrundfunk radio station. La Place de l'Étoile was published in English in August 2015, along with two others from Modiano's wartime books, The Occupation Trilogy.

Modiano co-wrote the screenplay of Lacombe, Lucien, a film co-written and directed by Louis Malle in 1973; it focuses on a boy who joined the French Resistance after being refused admission to the French Resistance. The film sparked controversy due to the inability of justification of the main character's political affiliation.

Modiano's books delves into the mystery of identity and the challenge of finding traces of life through the traces of the past. After book building a remarkably homogeneous set, Obsessed with the difficult and shameful period of the Occupation, during which his father had been suspected of illicit activities, Modiano returns to this theme in all of his books and essays. "I have the feeling that I have cleared it all away" after each book. "I'll come back over and over again to tiny details, little things that make up what I am." We are all determined by the time and place in which we were born," at the end. He writes regularly about Paris, describing the city's changes, habits, and people.

All of Modiano's books are written from a place of "mania." The protagonist of Rue des Boutiques (known in English as Missing Person) suffers from amnesia and travels from Polynesia to Rome in an attempt to reconnect with his past. The novel explores the never-ending hunt for identity in a world where "the sand has the traces of our footsteps but not so many times." The narrator recalls his gyny in 1960s Paris and London with an enigmatic woman in Duplus loin de l'oubli (Out of the Dark). They will now meet again fifteen years after they split up, but they have changed their name and never deny their history. Peter Rachman and Emil Savundra, two of postwar London's most popular true-life characters, befriend the narrator. In the dreamlike book that typifies Modiano's obsessions and elegiac prose, what is true and what is not remain to be seen.

In Dora Bruder (entitled The Search Warrant in some English-language translations), the theme of memory is most apparent. Dora Bruder is a literary hybrid that blends biography, autobiography, detective novel in order to inform the reader of its title character, a 15-year-old daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who, after running away from the convent's safety, was arrested to Auschwitz. In a French newspaper Paris Soir's December 1941 issue, Modiano discusses Dora's life first. Modiano, who was ignited by his own passion for the past, moved to the listed address, and began his probe into memory. He began piecing together newspaper cuttings, vague memoirs, and old telephone directories, while considering an outsider living on the outskirts of the city. Dora Bruder wrote: "I will never know how she lived her days, where she hid in whose company she worked in during her first pregnancy, or the few weeks of spring when she escaped for the second time." That is her mystery." Modiano's quiet, austere books, which also include La Ronde de nuit, are described as reading like "compassionate, regretful thrillers."

Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue, Modiano's 2007 book Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue is set in 1960s Paris, where a group of people, including a detective with shady connections, is wondering what is or was the problem with Louki, a young woman who died by throwing herself out a window, which we learned on the last page. Despite the fact that there are a slew of geographical locations, the reader is left with a feeling of confusion about what happened and when. Modiano uses several narrators who relate from their point of view to what they believe about her for the first time in his career. The protagonist herself refers to events from her childhood in the third of five chapters, but it is difficult to comprehend. Instabilities on various levels of his book are induced by the author, and this illustrates how literary figures can(not) be created. The protagonist refuses to be understood.

The narrator, Jean Bosmans, a young man haunted by his mother's ghost, talks about his youth and those he has lost in Modiano's 26th book, L'Horizon (2011). Margaret Le Coz, a young woman with whom he met and fell in love with in the 1960s, is one of them. The two loners spent many weeks in Paris' winding streets, fleeing a phantom threat. Margaret boarded a train and vanished into the void one day, but not from Jean's memory. He is looking for his departed love forty years later. Modiano's style and fears are portrayed in the book, but it also marks a new step in his personal quest after a tumultuous walkabout in Berlin. "The city is my age," he says of Berlin, which is almost new city rebuilt from the remains of war. "Its long, geometric avenues still have the hallmarks of history." However, you can still see ancient wastelands underneath the concrete if you look at it properly. "These are the very roots of my generation." "One of the most beautiful trees in French literature" besson says over the years, such symbolic roots have risen "to one of the most beautiful trees in French literature."

Modiano is also one of the eight members of the French literary award Prix Contrepoint's jury.

Modiano has also written children's books.

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Awards and honors

• 1968: Prix Roger-Nimier and the Prix Fénéon for La Place de l'Étoile
• 1972: Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture
• 1976: Prix des libraires for Villa Triste
• 1978: Prix Goncourt for Rue des Boutiques obscures
• 1984: Prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco for his body of work
• 1990: Prix Relay for Voyage de noces
• 2000: Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand for his body of work
• 2002: Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente for La Petite Bijou
• 2010: Prix mondial Cino Del Duca for his body of work
• 2011: Prix de la BnF and the Prix Marguerite-Duras for his body of work
• 2012: Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 2014: Nobel Prize in Literature