9th October, 2014
Patrick Madiano has just been announced the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in 1945, he has written 30 different books mainly novels. He is a master of detective genre of the novel form.
He is the 11th French writer to win the Nobel Prize.
Speculations have been rive that one of the following writers: Haruki Murakami, Ngugi Wa Thiogo, Milan Kundera, Margaret Attwood and Svetlana Alexievish would win.
Many of Patrick Modiano’s books are not translated into English yet.