Publisher Andersen Press enters the race to publish Nobel prizewinners work in English, comparing new childrens story to Hans Christian Andersen
A childrens book by Patrick Modiano a mystery set in the 10th arrondissement of Paris has just been snapped up by a British publisher amid a flurry of English-translation deals and climbing sales for the worlds newest Nobel literature laureate.
The French author was announced as winner of the prestigious literary award on 9 October, cited by judges for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation. At that time, just one of his titles was in print in English translation: The Search Warrant, the story of a teenager who vanishes during the Nazi occupation of Paris, and of the man who discovers her name on a list of Jews deported to Auschwitz. Its publisher, Harvill Secker, has since rushed through a reprint of Joanna Kilmartins 2000 translation.
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