Any author writing about contemporary experience in their own country can be seen as providing some kind of historical record. Modiano, however, goes further. His oeuvre – upward of twenty…
I couldn’t sell them to Chicago for landfill. Patrick Modiano was practically unknown in America until he won the Nobel Prize, but David Godine, an independent publisher, has had boxes…
For the Guardian, Alison Flood reports that a British publisher has purchased a translation of Patrick Modiano’s only children’s book. The news comes after the author’s Nobel Prize piqued the interest of…
For the New Yorker, Vauhini Vara wonders if the Nobel Prize is necessary for foreign authors to be successful in the United States, as large publishing companies hesitate to release translated works…