Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano hailed as modern Marcel Proust

Swedish Academy praises art of memory in French novelist known for short works marked by sophisticated simplicity

The French novelist Patrick Modiano was hailed on Thursday as a Marcel Proust of our time as he was named as the 2014 winner of the Nobel prize for literature.

The Swedish Academy said it was celebrating Modianos art of memory, rewarding a writer who repeatedly returns to the same themes and subjects: memory, identity and alienation all rooted in the trauma of the Nazi occupation of France.

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