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Patrick Modiano
Modiano in Stockholm during the Swedish Academy's press conference, Dec 2014
Born	Jean Patrick Modiano (1945-07-30) 30 July 1945 (age 79) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation	Novelist
Language	French
Nationality	France
Genre	Novels
Notable awards	Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française (1972) Prix Goncourt (1978) Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2010) Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2012) Nobel Prize in Literature (2014)
Spouse	Dominique Zehrfuss
Children	Zina Modiano Marie Modiano

Jean Patrick Modiano (French: [ʒɑ̃ patʁik mɔdjano]; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for Rue des boutiques obscures.^[1]

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↑ Bas Wohlert, Camille (9 October 2014). "Patrick Modiano of France wins Nobel Literature Prize". The Rappler. Retrieved 9 October 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}

v t e Winners of Nobel Prize in Literature
1901 – 1925	Prudhomme (1901) · Mommsen (1902) · Bjørnson (1903) · F. Mistral / Echegaray (1904) · Sienkiewicz (1905) · Carducci (1906) · Kipling (1907) · Eucken (1908) · Lagerlöf (1909) · Heyse (1910) · Maeterlinck (1911) · Hauptmann (1912) · Tagore (1913) · No award (1914) · Rolland (1915) · Heidenstam (1916) · Gjellerup / Pontoppidan (1917) · No award (1918) · Spitteler (1919) · Hamsun (1920) · France (1921) · Benavente (1922) · Yeats (1923) · Reymont (1924) · Shaw (1925)
1926 – 1950	Deledda (1926) · Bergson (1927) · Undset (1928) · Mann (1929) · Lewis (1930) · Karlfeldt (1931) · Galsworthy (1932) · Bunin (1933) · Pirandello (1934) · No award (1935) · O'Neill (1936) · Martin du Gard (1937) · Buck (1938) · Sillanpää (1939) · No awards (World War II) · Jensen (1944) · G. Mistral (1945) · Hesse (1946) · Gide (1947) · Eliot (1948) · Faulkner (1949) · Russell (1950)
1951 – 1975	Lagerkvist (1951) · Mauriac (1952) · Churchill (1953) · Hemingway (1954) · Laxness (1955) · Jiménez (1956) · Camus (1957) · Pasternak (1958) · Quasimodo (1959) · Perse (1960) · Andrić (1961) · Steinbeck (1962) · Seferis (1963) · Sartre (1964) · Sholokhov (1965) · Agnon / Sachs (1966) · Asturias (1967) · Kawabata (1968) · Beckett (1969) · Solzhenitsyn (1970) · Neruda (1971) · Böll (1972) · White (1973) · Johnson / Martinson (1974) · Montale (1975)
1976 – 2000	Bellow (1976) · Aleixandre (1977) · Singer (1978) · Elytis (1979) · Miłosz (1980) · Canetti (1981) · García Márquez (1982) · Golding (1983) · Seifert (1984) · Simon (1985) · Soyinka (1986) · Brodsky (1987) · Mahfouz (1988) · Cela (1989) · Paz (1990) · Gordimer (1991) · Walcott (1992) · Morrison (1993) · Ōe (1994) · Heaney (1995) · Szymborska (1996) · Fo (1997) · Saramago (1998) · Grass (1999) · Gao (2000)
2001 – present	Naipaul (2001) · Kertész (2002) · Coetzee (2003) · Jelinek (2004) · Pinter (2005) · Pamuk (2006) · Lessing (2007) · Le Clézio (2008) · Müller (2009) · Vargas Llosa (2010) · Tranströmer (2011) · Mo (2012) · Munro (2013) · Modiano (2014) · Alexievich (2015) · Dylan (2016) · Ishiguro (2017) · No formal award Condé (New Academy Prize) (2018) · Tokarczuk (2018) · Handke (2019) · Glück (2020) · Gurnah (2021) · Ernaux (2022) · Fosse (2023) · Kang (2024)

v t e Laureates of the Prix Goncourt
1903–1925	1903 John Antoine Nau 1904 Léon Frapié 1905 Claude Farrère 1906 Jérôme Tharaud and Jean Tharaud 1907 Émile Moselly 1908 Francis de Miomandre 1909 Marius-Ary Leblond 1910 Louis Pergaud 1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant 1912 André Savignon 1913 Marc Elder 1914 Adrien Bertrand 1915 René Benjamin 1916 Henri Barbusse 1917 Henry Malherbe 1918 Georges Duhamel 1919 Marcel Proust 1920 Ernest Pérochon 1921 René Maran 1922 Henri Béraud 1923 Lucien Fabre 1924 Thierry Sandre 1925 Maurice Genevoix
1926–1950	1926 Henri Deberly 1927 Maurice Bedel 1928 Maurice Constantin-Weyer 1929 Marcel Arland 1930 Henri Fauconnier 1931 Jean Fayard 1932 Guy Mazeline 1933 André Malraux 1934 Roger Vercel 1935 Joseph Peyré 1936 Maxence Van der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944 Elsa Triolet 1945 Jean-Louis Bory 1946 Jean-Jacques Gautier 1947 Jean-Louis Curtis 1948 Maurice Druon 1949 Robert Merle 1950 Paul Colin
1951–1975	1951 Julien Gracq 1952 Béatrix Beck 1953 Pierre Gascar 1954 Simone de Beauvoir 1955 Roger Ikor 1956 Romain Gary 1957 Roger Vailland 1958 Francis Walder 1959 André Schwarz-Bart 1960 Vintilă Horia 1961 Jean Cau 1962 Anna Langfus 1963 Armand Lanoux 1964 Georges Conchon 1965 Jacques Borel 1966 Edmonde Charles-Roux 1967 André Pieyre de Mandiargues 1968 Bernard Clavel 1969 Félicien Marceau 1970 Michel Tournier 1971 Jacques Laurent 1972 Jean Carrière 1973 Jacques Chessex 1974 Pascal Lainé 1975 Émile Ajar (Romain Gary)
1976–2000	1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez 1983 Frédérick Tristan 1984 Marguerite Duras 1985 Yann Queffélec 1986 Michel Host 1987 Tahar Ben Jelloun 1988 Érik Orsenna 1989 Jean Vautrin 1990 Jean Rouaud 1991 Pierre Combescot 1992 Patrick Chamoiseau 1993 Amin Maalouf 1994 Didier Van Cauwelaert 1995 Andreï Makine 1996 Pascale Roze 1997 Patrick Rambaud 1998 Paule Constant 1999 Jean Echenoz 2000 Jean-Jacques Schuhl
2001–present	2001 Jean-Christophe Rufin 2002 Pascal Quignard 2003 Jacques-Pierre Amette 2004 Laurent Gaudé 2005 François Weyergans 2006 Jonathan Littell 2007 Gilles Leroy 2008 Atiq Rahimi 2009 Marie NDiaye 2010 Michel Houellebecq 2011 Alexis Jenni 2012 Jérôme Ferrari 2013 Pierre Lemaitre 2014 Lydie Salvayre 2015 Mathias Énard 2016 Leïla Slimani 2017 Éric Vuillard 2018 Nicolas Mathieu 2019 Jean-Paul Dubois 2020 Hervé Le Tellier 2021 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

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