Patrick Modiano Biography

Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and has won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for his lifetime achievement in 2010 the Prix Goncourt in 1978. Modiano studied at the École du Montcel primary school in Jouy-en-Josas at the Collège Saint-Joseph de Thônes in Haute-Savoie and then at the Lyce Henri-IV high school in Paris. His meeting with Queneau author of Zazie dans le mtro was crucial. It was Queneau who introduced Modiano to the literary world giving him the opportunity to attend a cocktail party thrown by the publishing house Éditions Gallimard. In 1968 he published his first book La Place de lÉtoile a wartime novel about a Jewish collaborator after having read the manuscript to Queneau. The novel displeased his father so much that he tried to buy all existing copies of the book. Earlier while stranded in Paris during the Algerian war Modiano had asked his father for little financial assistance but his father called the police.

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