Missing Person

Patrick Modiano was born on the outskirts of Paris in 1945. He has written novels, plays and children's books. He also co-wrote the script for Louis Malle's film Lacombe Lucien .His novels include Place d'Etoile , The Night Watch , The Search Warrant (Dora Bruder), Ring Roads , Honeymoon and the three novellas collected as Suspended Sentences : Afterimage , Suspended Sentences and Flowers of Ruin . Missing Person (published in French as Rue des boutiques obscures ) won Modiano the Prix Goncourt in 1978. The novel has since been translated into 32 languages. In 2014 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.