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           French Author Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Literature Prize

   by VOA News

   French novelist Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in
   Literature.

   The Swedish Academy said it awarded the $1.1 million prize to Modiano
   "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 writing often focuses on life under German occupation in
   World War Two France.

   Some of his works have been translated into English and include the
   novels " A Trace of Malice," "Honeymoon" and "Missing Person."

   Modiano becomes the 107th Literature Laureate, and the 11th winner from
   France.

   He joined the ranks of other popular writers such as John Steinback,
   William Faulkner and Pablo Neruda.
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