Patrick Modiano has been named the 111th winner of the Nobel prize for literature.
His name was announced at a short ceremony in Stockholm with Peter Englund, the Nobel Academy’s permanent secretary, reading a citation
Modiano is well known in France but something of an unknown quantity for even widely read people in other countries.
Englund said: “Patrick Modiano is a well-known name in France but not anywhere else.” He writes children’s books, movie scripts but mainly novels. His themes are memory, identity and time.