The Swedish
Academy has announced Patrick Modiano as the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize in
literature. The French author published his first book in 1968 and focuses
mainly on historical fiction.
Deutsche Welle, 9 Oct 2014
On
Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced that the 69-year-old Patrick Modiano
had won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature. The French author published his
first novel, "La place de l’etoile," in 1968, though the book did not
have an English edition. Called by the academy "a Marcel Proust of our
time," Modiano has written extensively about Jewish identity in Europe
after World War II and Germany's occupation of France.
The Swedish
Academy announced that it had given the Nobel Prize to Modiano "for the
art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and
uncovered the life-world of the occupation." Announcing the award, Peter
Englund, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, said the judges had not yet
been able to reach Modiano to let him know, "but we hope to do so
soon."
Modiano's
books in English include "Missing Person," "Out of the
Dark" and "The Search Warrant."
Long
laureate legacy
In 2013, Alice Munro became just the 13th woman of 110 laureates to win the prize for literature |
The academy
also awards Nobel Prizes in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, peace
and economics. The weeklong announcements of the winners began on Monday.
Before his
death in 1896, the Swedish industrialist - and inventor of dynamite - Alfred
Nobel, endowed the prize that bears his name. This year, winners receive 8
million Swedish kronor (900,000 euros/1.1 million dollars), which they can
collect at a ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
#HTdata | Out of every 20 Nobel laureates only 1 is a woman.
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— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) October 8, 2014
Every year,
the academy makes a list in February with all the nominations it has received -
210 this time around - and then cuts that down to five names in May. The final
deliberations take place behind closed doors, with the public only given a
window unto the judges' thinking 50 years later.
mkg/kms (AFP, dpa)
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