Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 is awarded to the French
author
Patrick Modiano
“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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Paris' literary doyen Patrick Modiano has won literature's most coveted
price for his unparalleled mastery in portraying loss and legacy.
--> The 69-years-old Modiano, legendary
for shunning the limelight is the 11th literature laureate born in France and
is known to be a modern master in depicting brooding themes surrounding
"memory, identity and guilt".
--> He is known to be an authority on
Paris with most of his epic works set in the city.
--> Modiano's struggle with his Jewish
heritage is well known. He was born outside Paris to a Sephardic Jewish family
with roots dating back to eminent rabbis in Greece. It haunted him for most
part of his life having spent the early phase of his writing career bluffing
away about his year of birth. He claimed he was born in 1947 in order to
distance himself from the shame of the World War II.
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