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.