French literature

French writer Patrick Modiano poses for journalists in Paris on October 9, 2014, after he was declared the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to — who?

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The Nobel Committee awarded its prize for literature to French novelist Patrick Modiano, a man who’s been called a modern-day Proust. Yet his work is relatively unknown in the English-speaking world despite his success in France.

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