Patrick Modiano wins the Nobel Prize for literature

[NormanH]

As the Guardian says he is not that well known in the UK

If you know the wonderful Louis Malle film Lacombe Lucien he wrote the screenplay.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/09/patrick-modiano-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature

His best-known work, spoken of in the article as Missing Person is in fact called in French

Rue des boutiques obscures

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_des_boutiques_obscures