France’s Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to French writer Patrick Modiano, whom the Swedish Academy describes as “Marcel Proust of our time”.

Relatively unknown outside of France, Modiano’s works have centred on memory, oblivion, identity and guilt that often take place during the German occupation of World War Two. He has written roughly 30 works, which includes novels, children’s books and film scripts.