ノーベル文学賞のフランス人作家

今年のノーベル文学賞は、フランス人だけど、どんな本書いてるのかなと思いまして。
Modianoは、1945年、パリ生まれ。
父親は、ユダヤ系イタリア人　、母親は、ベルギー人女優。
この二人は、パリがナチスに占領されてる時に出会う。
ナチス占領下のユダヤ人のことなどをテーマに書いた小説が30ぐらいはある。
共同で、脚本も書いてる。
Prix Goncourt （1978）やthe Austrian State Prize という賞（2012）とってる。
パリ在住。マスコミが苦手なようで、インタヴューは、めったにうけないらしい。　
作品は、Missing Person、La Place de l'Etoile　など。
　

Modiano, 69, whose novel “Missing Person” won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978 – was born in a west Paris suburb two months after World War II ended in Europe in July 1945.

His father was of Jewish Italian origins and met his Belgian actress mother during the occupation of Paris – and his beginnings have strongly influenced his writing.

Jewishness, the Nazi occupation, guilt, and loss of identity are recurrent themes in his approximately 30 novels, which include 1968's “La Place de l'Etoile” – later hailed in Germany as a key Post-Holocaust work.

Apart from a long series of books, in the early 1970s, Modiano co-wrote the screenplay for Lacombe Lucien, a movie directed by Louis Malle focusing on French collaboration with the Nazis.

Modiano owes his first big break to a friendship with a friend of his mother,
French writer Raymond Queneau, who was first introduced him to the Gallimard publishing house when he was in his early twenties.

Modiano, who lives in Paris, is known to shun media, and rarely accords interviews.
In 2012, he won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.

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