Patrick Modiano, the French writer whose novels center on topics like memory, identity and guilt, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
星期四，法国作家帕特里克·莫迪亚诺(Patrick Modiano)获得2014年诺贝尔文学奖，他的小说主要以记忆、身份与罪恶为主题。
In an announcement in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy cited Mr. Modiano's ability to evoke "the most ungraspable human destinies in his work."
瑞典学院在斯德哥尔摩发布声明，称莫迪亚诺有能力在他的作品中唤起“最为莫测的人类命运”。
Mr. Modiano was born in 1945, to a Belgian mother who worked as an actress and a Jewish-Italian father who was often absent during his childhood. Mr. Modiano first rose to prominence in 1968, with the publication of his novel "La Place de L'Etoile." Many of his fictional works delve into the moral dilemmas that citizens faced during World War II, and some play with the detective genre. Several of his works have been translated into English, but he is not widely known outside Europe.
莫迪亚诺出生于1945年，母亲是一位比利时裔女演员，父亲是意大利犹太人，在他的童年生活中经常缺席。莫迪亚诺1968年因出版小说《星形广场》(La Place de L'Etoile)首度成名。他的很多虚构作品都深入挖掘“二战”后人们所面临的道德困境，也有些作品戏谑地使用侦探小说形式。他的若干作品被译为英文，但在欧洲之外并不广为人知。

Mr. Modiano, 69, is the 11th writer born in France to win the prize. Recent winners for the literature prize have included the Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro in 2013; the Chinese novelist Mo Yan in 2012; the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, in 2011; and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010. The last American writer to win the Nobel in literature was Toni Morrison, in 1993. The Nobel, one of the most prestigious and financially generous awards in the world, comes with a $1.1 million prize. The literature prize is given out for a lifetime of writing rather than for a single work.
莫迪亚诺现年69岁，是第11位出生在法国的诺贝尔文学奖获得者。近期的诺贝尔文学奖得主包括2013年的加拿大短篇小说作家爱丽丝·门罗(Alice Munro)、2012年的中国小说家莫言、2011年的瑞典诗人托马斯·特兰斯特勒默(Tomas Transtromer)以及2010年的秘鲁作家马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨(Mario Vargas Llosa)。上一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国作家是1993年的托尼·莫里森(Toni Morrison)。诺贝尔奖是世界上最有声望、奖金最高的奖项之一，奖金为110万美元。文学奖的授予是基于作家的毕生创作，而非单独的某部作品。