法國作家莫迪亞諾獲諾貝爾文學獎

Patrick Modiano, the French writer whose novels center on topics like memory, identity and guilt, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

星期四，法國作家帕特里克·莫迪亞諾(Patrick Modiano)獲得2014年諾貝爾文學獎，他的小說主要以記憶、身份與罪惡爲主題。

In an announcement in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy cited Mr. Modiano's ability to evoke "the most ungraspable human destinies in his work."

瑞典學院在斯德哥爾摩發佈聲明，稱莫迪亞諾有能力在他的作品中喚起“最爲莫測的人類命運”。

Mr. Modiano was born in 1945, to a Belgian mother who worked as an actress and a Jewish-Italian father who was often absent during his childhood. Mr. Modiano first rose to prominence in 1968, with the publication of his novel "La Place de L'Etoile." Many of his fictional works delve into the moral dilemmas that citizens faced during World War II, and some play with the detective genre. Several of his works have been translated into English, but he is not widely known outside Europe.

莫迪亞諾出生於1945年，母親是一位比利時裔女演員，父親是意大利猶太人，在他的童年生活中經常缺席。莫迪亞諾1968年因出版小說《星形廣場》(La Place de L'Etoile)首度成名。他的很多虛構作品都深入挖掘“二戰”後人們所面臨的道德困境，也有些作品戲謔地使用偵探小說形式。他的若干作品被譯爲英文，但在歐洲之外並不廣爲人知。

Mr. Modiano, 69, is the 11th writer born in France to win the prize. Recent winners for the literature prize have included the Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro in 2013; the Chinese novelist Mo Yan in 2012; the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, in 2011; and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010. The last American writer to win the Nobel in literature was Toni Morrison, in 1993. The Nobel, one of the most prestigious and financially generous awards in the world, comes with a $1.1 million prize. The literature prize is given out for a lifetime of writing rather than for a single work.

莫迪亞諾現年69歲，是第11位出生在法國的諾貝爾文學獎獲得者。近期的諾貝爾文學獎得主包括2013年的加拿大短篇小說作家愛麗絲·門羅(Alice Munro)、2012年的中國小說家莫言、2011年的瑞典詩人托馬斯·特蘭斯特勒默(Tomas Transtromer)以及2010年的祕魯作家馬里奧·巴爾加斯·略薩(Mario Vargas Llosa)。上一位獲得諾貝爾文學獎的美國作家是1993年的託尼·莫里森(Toni Morrison)。諾貝爾獎是世界上最有聲望、獎金最高的獎項之一，獎金爲110萬美元。文學獎的授予是基於作家的畢生創作，而非單獨的某部作品。