Missing Person
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Literature | 2014 | Winner |
About This Book
Guy Roland, an amnesiac, hires himself to investigate his own past—a search that takes him through the shadowy streets of Paris, through old photographs and faded addresses. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this is Modiano's most celebrated novel, a meditation on identity, memory, and the occupation.
About the Author
Patrick Modiano is a French novelist born on July 30, 1945, in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Of Jewish-Italian descent on his father's side and Flemish on his mother's, Modiano grew up in a fractured family amid the aftermath of World War II, and his childhood was marked by his parents' frequent absence and an obsession with memory, identity, and the Nazi Occupation era—themes that permeate his autofiction works. He launched his literary career at twenty-two after mentorship from Raymond Queneau. Read more →
