Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano

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, responsibilities, loyalties, memory, and loss. Because of his obsession with the past, he was 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. Modiano 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. Jean Patrick Modiano was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris on July 30, 1945. His father, Albert Modiano (1912–77, born in Paris), was of Jewish-Italian origin; on his paternal side he was descended from the well known Italo-Jewish Modiano family of Thessaloniki, Greece. His mother, Louisa Colpeyn (1918–2015), was a Belgian (Flemish) actress. Modiano's parents met in occupied Paris during World War II and began their relationship semi-clandestinely (they separated shortly after Patrick's birth). His father had refused to wear the Yellow badge and did not turn himself in when Paris Jews were rounded up for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. He was picked up in February 1942, and narrowly missed being deported, after an intervention from a friend. During the war years Albert did business on the black market and was allegedly associated with the Carlingue, the French Gestapo auxiliaries which recruited its leaders from the underworld. Albert Modiano never clearly spoke of this period to his son before his death in 1977. Patrick Modiano's childhood took place in a unique atmosphere. He was initially brought up by his maternal grandparents who taught him Flemish as his first language. The absence of his father, and frequently also of his mother, on tour, brought him closer to his two-year-younger brother, Rudy, who suddenly died of a disease at age 9 (Patrick Modiano dedicated his works from 1967 to 1982 to his brother). Recalling this tragic period in his famed memoir Un Pedigree (2005), Modiano said: "I couldn't write an autobiography, that's why I called it a 'pedigree': It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me." ... Source: Article "Patrick Modiano" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Patrick Modiano
  • Popularity: 1.577
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1945-07-30
  • Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Patrick Modiano Movies

  • 1997
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    Genealogies of a Crime

    Genealogies of a Crime

    6.63 1997 HD

    An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.

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  • 1996
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    Elle s'appelait Françoise

    Elle s'appelait Françoise

    1 1996 HD

    Françoise Dorléac et Catherine Deneuve were nearly twins. Only 18 months separated these sisters who liked to say “Both of us...

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  • 2011
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    Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien »

    Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien »

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2015
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    Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

    Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

    6 2015 HD

    40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a...

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  • 2001
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    Te quiero

    Te quiero

    3.2 2001 HD

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  • 1995
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    Son of Gascogne

    Son of Gascogne

    4.8 1995 HD

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  • 1974
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    Lacombe, Lucien

    Lacombe, Lucien

    7.007 1974 HD

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  • 2009
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    Des gens qui passent

    Des gens qui passent

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1994
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    The Perfume of Yvonne

    The Perfume of Yvonne

    5.7 1994 HD

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  • 2023
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    Lost Explorer

    Lost Explorer

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2003
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    Bon Voyage

    Bon Voyage

    6.3 2003 HD

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  • 2014
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    Babel

    Babel

    9.5 2014 HD

    Literature talkshow with Jessika Gedin.

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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