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Patrick Modiano

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Also known as Jean Patrick Modiano

French writer

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Patrick Modiano is a French writer, screenwriter, playwright, and lyricist born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1945. He is educated at Lycée Henri-IV and works primarily in Paris. His native language is French, which he uses for his writing. Modiano’s notable works include *La Place de l'Étoile*, *Missing Person*, and *Dora Bruder*. He began his work period in 1968.

He is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection and has been referenced by 624 other encyclopedia articles. Modiano’s family includes his mother, Louisa Colpeyn, and his child, Marie Modiano. His birth name is Jean Patrick Modiano. He is also known for his official website, Le Réseau Modiano.

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 11 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Firecrawl, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1945-07-30
Works
284

Top works

  • 추억 을 완성 하기 위하여
  • Rien où poser sa tête
  • Osynligt bläck
  • Honeymoon
  • Catherine

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Film & TV

Writing · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Jean Patrick Modiano (born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction. In more than 40 books, Modiano used his fascination with the human experience of World War II in France to examine individual and collective identities,…

Known for

  • Les vendredis d'Apostrophes — Self (archive footage)2015
  • Babel2014
  • Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien » — Self (scénariste de Lacombe Lucien)2011
  • Genealogies of a Crime — Bob1997
  • Elle s'appelait Françoise — Self1996
  • Apostrophes — Self1975

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1945

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
43
Total plays
521

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Patrick+Modiano">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 85,040x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,208x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,887x

  4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

    · 2009 · cited 18,980x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,617x

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Quotes

  • “I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.”
  • “And that these directories and yearbooks constituted the most valuable and moving library you could imagine, as their pages listed people, things, vanished worlds , to which they alone bore witness.”
  • “She committed suicide..."Why?""She often told me, she was frightened of getting old."”
  • “We passed the Gardens and turned down Avenue de New York. There, under the embankment trees,I had the unpleasant sensation that I was dreaming.I had already lived my life and was just a ghost hovering in the tepid air of Saturday evening. Why try to renew ties which had been broken and look for paths that had been blocked off long ago? And the plump, moustachioed little man, walking beside me, hardly seemed real.”
  • “You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..”
  • “There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature2014

    “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”

NobelPrize.org →

Official website

Le Réseau Modiano

lereseaumodiano.blogspot.com →

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Patrick Modiano ( French: [ʒɑ̃ patʁik mɔdjano]; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.

In more than 40 books, Modiano has used his fascination with the human experience of World War II in France to examine individual and collective identities, responsibilities, loyalties, memory, and loss. Because of his obsession with the past, he is sometimes compared to Marcel Proust. Modiano's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Patrick Modiano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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