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Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano was born in Paris, France in 1945. He was the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture.
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In the Café of Lost Youth
Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a…
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The Black Notebook
A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of…
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Pedigree
"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me" Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary…
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So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood
Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many people, he rarely goes…