French writer Patrick Modiano speaks during a news conference at the French publishing house Gallimard in Paris

French writer Patrick Modiano speaks during a news conference at the French publishing house Gallimard in Paris October 9, 2014 after he was declared the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature as “a Marcel Proust of our time,” The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The academy said the award of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) was “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE – Tags: SOCIETY)