Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014, announced October 9, 2014. Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”. Patrick Modiano: born 1945, Paris, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).