Not heard Modiano? – Today’s Business

Cappelen publishing company focused on three books by Patrick Modiano on Norwegian Pan-series in the 70s and 80s. But this year’s Nobel Prize winner is not released in Norway on 26 years.

Published: 10/09/2014 – 9:50 p.m.

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It’s been a while since the recent French Nobel Prize winner in literature was translated into Norwegian. Three books were published by Cappelen publishing “Streets in darkness” (1979), “adolescence” (1982) and “Sundays in August” (1988). They arrived in the quality-oriented Pan-series under former editor Aase Gjerdrum, where Modiano now joins as the fourth nobelprisvinnen in succession by José Saramago, Kenzaburo Oe and JM Coetzee.

The French author has kept it going, but the authorship was not followed up on this country. Low sales numbers and similarity between several of Madianos early novels may be among the reasons. He is known for precise, low-key and almost secretive novels, often of only 130-150 pages, which revolve around themes such as loss and mementos.

Swedish Academy surprised again as secretary Peter Englund

announced that this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature go to Patrick Modiano. The French writer born in the release year 1945 in a suburb of Paris. His father had Jewish-Italian descent and his mother was Belgian actor. He debuted as an author in another omveltningsår, 1968 Jury describes World War II as a backdrop for his writing, which also includes children’s books and several screenplays. The brief rationale for the choice was that Modiano gets the award for the “remembrance the art that he has conjured up the most incomprehensible life stories and uncovered occupation over the life-world.”

Englund recommended new readers to start with just “Streets in the dark “the novel that won the French Gouncourt award, which was the first novel by Modiano in Norwegian. The book in English titled “Missing Person” is about a detective who has lost his memory and must try to find answers to the fundamental question of who he is.