Tuesday, November 11, 2014

British publisher to translate Patrick Modiano’s only children’s book

French writer Patrick Modiano gives a pr
An easy read … Patrick Modiano. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images.
A children’s book by Patrick Modiano – a mystery set in the 10th arrondissement of Paris – has just been snapped up by a British publisher amid a flurry of English-translation deals and climbing sales for the world’s newest Nobel literature laureate.

The French author was announced as winner of the prestigious literary award on 9 October, cited by judges for “the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”. At that time, just one of his titles was in print in English translation: The Search Warrant, the story of a teenager who vanishes during the Nazi occupation of Paris, and of the man who discovers her name on a list of Jews deported to Auschwitz. Its publisher, Harvill Secker, has since rushed through a reprint of Joanna Kilmartin’s 2000 translation
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