French author Patrick Modiano wins the Nobel Prize for literature . The child of a Belgian mother and an Italian Jewish father , his was a difficult , fragmented childhood , the journal says . He is honored `` for the art of memory , '' says Nobel committee . Modiano is well known in France but has not enjoyed the same fame elsewhere . Score: 6
French author Patrick Modiano wins the Nobel Prize for literature . He is honored `` for the art of memory , '' says Nobel committee . Modiano is well known in France but has not enjoyed the same fame elsewhere . Score: 6