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Patrick Modiano

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Jean Patrick Modiano (French: [ʒɑ̃ patʁik mɔdjano]; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction. In more than 40 books, Modiano has used his fascination with the human experience of World War II in France to examine individual and collective identities, responsibilities, loyalties, memory, and loss. Because of his obsession with the past, he is sometimes compared to Marcel Proust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Patrick Modiano is the 289th most popular writer (up from 415th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from France (up from 482nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Writer.

Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels, which often explore the themes of memory and identity.

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Among writers, Patrick Modiano ranks 289 out of 7,302. Before him are Isabel Allende, Kenzaburō Ōe, Pierre Corneille, Ludovico Ariosto, Marcus Terentius Varro, and Eckhart Tolle. After him are Claude Simon, Luigi Pirandello, Jacob Grimm, Bram Stoker, Walt Whitman, and Alfonso X of Castile.

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Among people born in 1945, Patrick Modiano ranks 21. Before him are Jupp Heynckes, Eddy Merckx, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Wim Wenders, Daniel Ortega, and Yoshinori Ohsumi. After him are Helen Mirren, Björn Ulvaeus, Hasan Akhund, Golden State Killer, Robert Sarah, and Ritchie Blackmore.

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In France

Among people born in France, Patrick Modiano ranks 318 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775), Germaine de Staël (1766), Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Pierre Corneille (1606), and Joseph Fouché (1759). After him are Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Jacques de Molay (1243), Richard I of Normandy (933), and Abraham de Moivre (1667).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Patrick Modiano ranks 47. Before him are Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Annie Ernaux (1940), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Germaine de Staël (1766), and Pierre Corneille (1606). After him are Alphonse Daudet (1840), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749).

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