"First of all…so unexpected, it's something I never thought I would receive…it really touches me. It's made me very emotional."
Born in the suburbs of Paris in 1945, Patrick Modiano began to write in his twenties.
His first book "La Place de l'etoile" was published in 1968.
Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of Swedish Academy, explains why they chose Modiano for this year's prize.
"He writes about very interesting and general topics, he is writing about time, memory, identity, and he is doing it in a very refined and elegant way, he is doing it in a pretty way, he has very very precise style."
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