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Patrick Modiano was born in Paris in 1945 in the immediate aftermath of World War Two and the Nazi occupation of France, a dark period which continues to haunt him. After passing his baccalauréat, he left full-time education and dedicated himself to writing, encouraged by the French writer Raymond Queneau. From his very first book to his most recent, Modiano has pursued a quest for identity and some form of reconciliation with the past. His books have been published in forty languages and among the many prizes they have won are the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française (1972), the Prix Goncourt (1978) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2012). In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Modiano’s deceptive simplicity, where straightforward sentences conceal deeper and complex meanings, is also utterly spellbinding, and in this novella about an initially amoral double agent who works for both the Resistance and the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Paris purely for his own benefit, he spins a particularly sticky and discomforting web
<i><b>Glasgow Sunday Herald</b></i>
A Marcel Proust of our time
<b>Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy</b>
Modiano is a pure original
<b>Adam Thirlwell</b>
Modiano is the poet of the Occupation and a spokesman for the disappeared, and I am thrilled that the Swedish Academy has recognised him
<b>Rupert Thomson, <i>Guardian</i></b>
From the satirical portrayal of anti-Semitism in his debut novel [<i>La Place de l’Étoile</i>] to later books such as <i>The Search Warrant</i> and <i>Missing Person</i> (winner of the 1978 Prix Goncourt), the Occupation shapes much of Modiano’s work
<b>Boyd Tonkin, <i>Independent</i></b>