So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood (14 page)

P
ATRICK
M
ODIANO
was born in Paris in 1945. His first novel,
La Place de l'étoile
, was published in 1968 when he was just twenty-two and his works have now been translated into over thirty languages around the world. He won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012, the 2010 Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for
Rue de boutique obscures
, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for
Les boulevards de ceinture
. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014.

E
UAN
C
AMERON
's translations include works by Julien Green, Simone de Beauvoir and Paul Morand, and biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène Némirovsky.