Reuters : French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The academy said the award of eight 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 centre on topics such as memory, oblivion, identity and guilt. The city of Paris is often present in the text,” said a tweet issued from the Nobel Prize twitter account. Literature was the fourth of this year’s Nobel prizes. The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with his will.
