French author Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

ABOVE: Patrick Modiano of France, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

STOCKHOLM – Patrick Modiano of France has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Canadian Alice Munro received the prestigious honour last year.

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The Swedish Academy says it awarded the prize to Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”

Modiano’s English works include Night Rounds, Ring Roads : A Novel, Villa Triste, Missing Person, A Trace of Malice and Honeymoon.

Modiano, who was born in 1945, has written some 30 books.

The Nobel Peace prize will be awarded early Friday and the final 2014 award, for Economic Sciences, will be announced early Monday.