Patrick Modiano
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Patrick Modiano (born 30 July 1945) is a French novelist. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Italian origins and a Belgian mother, the actress Louisa Colpeyn.
A number of his novels have been adapted for film, Lacombe, Lucien by Louis Malle probably being the most famous, but there has also been Le Parfum d'Yvonne (1994).
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Works
- La Place de l'étoile (1968)
- La Ronde de nuit (1969); English translation: Night Rounds (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971)
- Les Boulevards de ceinture (1972) (Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française); English translation: Ring Roads (London: Gollancz, 1974)
- Lacombe, Lucien (1974); screenplay co-written with Louis Malle; English translation: Lacombe, Lucien: The Complete Scenario of the Film (New York: Viking, 1975)
- Villa triste (1975)
- Livret de famille (1977)
- Rue des boutiques obscures (1978) (Prix Goncourt); English translation: Missing Person (London: Jonathan Cape, 1980)
- Une Jeunesse (1981)
- Memory Lane (1981, drawings by Pierre Le-Tan)
- De si braves garçons (1982)
- Quartier Perdu (1984); English translation: A Trace of Malice (Henley-on-Thames: Aidan Ellis, 1988)
- Dimanches d'août (1986)
- Catherine Certitude (1988) (illustrated by Sempé); English translation: Catherine Certitude (Boston: David R. Godine, 2000)
- Remise de Peine (1988)
- Vestiaire de l'enfance (1989)
- Voyage de noces (1990); English translation: Honeymoon (London: Harvill / HarperCollins, 1992)
- Fleurs de Ruine (1991)
- Un Cirque passe (1992)
- Chien de printemps (1993)
- Du plus loin de l'oubli (1995); English translation: Out of the Dark (Lincoln: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, 1998)
- Dora Bruder (1997); English translations: Dora Bruder (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), The Search Warrant (London: Random House / Boston: Harvill Press, 2000)
- Des inconnues (1999)
- La Petite Bijou (2001)
- Accident nocturne (2003)
- Un pedigree (2004)
- Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (2007)
- L'Horizon (2010)
- L'Herbe de nuit (2012)
- Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier (2014)
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Filmography
Screenplays
- Lacombe, Lucien (with Louis Malle), 1973
- Le Fils de Gascogne de Pascal Aubier (1995)
- Bon Voyage (with Jean-Paul Rappeneau), 2003
Adaptations of his novels
- Une jeunesse (from the novel of same title) directed by Moshé Mizrahi, 1983
- Le parfum d'Yvonne (from the novel Villa triste) directed by Patrice Leconte, 1994
- Te quiero de Manuel Poirier (from the novel Dimanches d'août), 2001
- Charell de Mikhael Hers, moyen-métrage (from the novel De si braves garçons), 2006
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