Meet the Winner of Nobel prize in Literature 2014

A French novelist was honored with this year's Nobel Prize in Literature Award. Patrick Modiano, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature 2014 today (9th October 2014). The Swedish committee praised the 69-year-old French writer for “the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.” The award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (£691,000).

Patrick Modiano previously won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for his lifetime achievement in 2010. His novel "Missing Person" won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978

Last year’s Noble Literature award went to Canadian short story Writer Alice Munro for her short stories that focus on the frailties of the human condition. Literature was the fourth of this year's Nobel prizes. The Nobel prizes in Medicine , Physics and Chemistry 2014 were already announced. The Nobel Prizes 2014 for economic sciences and the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced later this week.