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Patrick Modiano, a Nobel Prize-winning author, has signed a deal with Other Press.
The United States-based publisher will release an English language edition of the novel Villa Triste for American readers on May 31. According to the press release, the story invokes the ideas of “memory, nostalgia, and the ghosts we carry with us through life.”
John Cullen served as the translator on this project. Éditions Gallimard, Modiano’s publisher in France, released the original book back in 1975.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) will publish an English language edition of Patrick Modiano’s latest novel. Gallimard, Modiano’s publisher in France, released the book back in October 2014 and it has become a bestseller.
HMH has scheduled a publication date for So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood in late 2015. Bruce Nichols, the company’s general interest publisher, negotiated the deal with literary agent Georges Borchardt (who represented Gallimard).
According to the announcement, Euan Cameron has signed on to serve as the translator for this project. The book “is a haunting novel of suspense, in which a single, unexpected phone call to a man living quietly in Paris launches a chain of menacing encounters and events, unlocking a dark secret he had erased from memory.”
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Andersen Press has acquired the exclusive UK and Commonwealth rights to Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s only children’s book, Catherine Certitude.
The Bookseller reports that the United Kingdom-based company plans to make some early copies available for the holiday season. The official publication date has been scheduled for March 2015.
Gallimard, Modiano’s publisher in France, first released the book in 1988. French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé (a.k.a. Sempé) created the illustrations.
David R. Godine, a Boston-based publishing house, released an English edition in the United States in 2001. William Rodarmor served as the translator for that project. Follow this link to read an excerpt. (via The Guardian)
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French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. According to the press release, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
Here’s more from The Atlantic: “Many of Modiano’s novels, like his debut La Place de L’Etoile, examine the moral struggles of those living under the Nazi occupation—and the dreamlike experience of navigating time and loss…For those unfamiliar with Modiano’s work, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund recommended Missing Person, a novel about a detective who has lost his memory and traces ‘his own steps through history to find out who he is.’”
Several of Modiano’s books have been translated into English including La Ronde de nuit (English title: Night Rounds), Rue des Boutiques obscures (English title: Missing Person), and Du plus loin de l’oubli (English title: Out of the Dark). Previous winners include Dear Life author Alice Munro, Red Sorghum author Mo Yan, and The Art of Procrastination author John Perry. (Photo Credit: Catherine Hélie)
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