STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature as “a Marcel Proust of our time,” The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The academy said the award of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) was “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 works have centred on memory, oblivion, identity and guilt that often take place during the German occupation of World War Two. …
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