French author Patrick Modiano has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in the field of literature.
The 69-year-old author at press conference said that he was not expecting to win the award at all and it was like he was a bit "detached" from it all, as if a doppelganger with his name had won, the BBC reported.
The Nobel Academy said that the award was for the art of memory with which Modiano had evoked the most "ungraspable human destinies" and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.
The last French writer to win the prize was Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio in 2008.
