2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
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."
Date
  • 9 October 2014 (2014-10-09) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2014
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Patrick Modiano (born 1945) "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation."[1] He became the 15th Frenchman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature after J. M. G. Le Clézio in 2008.[2]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ "Patrick Modiano". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 February 2022.