Missing Person (novel)
Missing Person (French: "Rue des Boutiques Obscures") is the sixth novel by French writer Patrick Modiano, published on 5 September 1978. In the same year it was awarded the Prix Goncourt. The English translation by Daniel Weissbort was published in 1980. Rue des Boutiques Obscures (literally 'the Street of dark shops') is the name of a street in Rome () where one of the characters lived, and where Modiano himself lived for some time.
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Haig Bosmajian
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Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano (; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for "Rue des boutiques obscures", and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for "Les Boulevards de ceinture". His works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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What award was received by the person who authored Missing Person?
Missing Person >> author
Patrick Modiano
#1 >> award received
Nobel Prize in Literature