Patrick Modiano, a French writer who has written moody, terse and occasionally dreamlike novels often set during the German Nazi occupation of France, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

“This prize will help raise the global profile of one of our consummate writers.  He is a master of writing on memory and occupation, which haunt and inform his work. He is a chronicler of Paris, its streets, its past and its present.”

Patrick Modiano, a Modern ‘Proust’  http://xenagoguevicene.livejournal.com/34994.html