Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture. His works have been translated into more than forty languages.
John Cullen was the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Siegfried Lenz s The Turncoat, Juli Zeh s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano s Villa Triste, Kamel Daoud s The Meursault Investigation, and Philippe Claudel s Brodeck.
