I didn't see any informations about nobel prize here, so I share this article from NYT
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The french author Patrick Modiano wins the Nobel Prize in literature this thrusday.
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Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, called Mr. Modiano “a Marcel Proust of our time,” noting that his works resonate with one another thematically and are “always variations of the same thing, about memory, about loss, about identity, about seeking.”
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With Patrick Modiano, France won its 15th Nobel Prize for Literature. The first prize was also awarded to a French, Sully Prudhomme in 1901 and France is the country with the largest number of winners.
Big up for french literature
