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“People were screaming through the streets when the news came over the radio,” said Patrick Modianos musician daughter Marie. Here with her Swedish husband and fellow artist Peter von Poehl in Paris.
The announcement that Patrick Modiano awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature has put his entire family in a happy state of shock. The ties to Sweden and Swedish culture has been further strengthened now, says her daughter Marie Modiano.
The announcement that Patrick Modiano awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature has put his entire family in a happy state of shock. The ties to Sweden and Swedish culture has been further strengthened now, says her daughter Marie Modiano.
The singer and songwriter Marie Modiano, the Nobel laureate’s daughter, starts with a language show.
– I speak a little, little Swedish, she says with Francophile vowels. Slightly Swedish master now also her award-winning father – thanks grandchild Orson (after Welles). The same three-year old Orson Patrick Modiano who dedicated the prize to Thursday:
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– He and my mom Dominique sits babysit Orson as he speaks Swedish with them, they have learned some basic words of him, says Marie Modiano.
She and her Malmo-born husband and fellow artist Peter von Poehl is at home in St Germain in central Paris and trying to collect his thoughts when DN reaches them. A more than bewildering experience for the whole family.
– We are all still in shock. The Nobel Prize is the ultimate dream for all authors, also for my father. It’s the best price of all. My father has written and worked hard for forty years, and so now this … he is very happy. Orson is also half Swedish makes this event even bigger for my father, he dedicated the to and with his latest book to his grandson.
After Thursday’s press conference with Patrick Modiano , testified a timid man who carefully avoids mobile phones and computers, the whole family went in the company of some of his French book publishers at the local for a “very private dinner.” Completely at peace they were still not be. President François Hollande immediately sent his congratulations and the French press wrote while in nätupplagorna of a “reawakening of hopefulness” in the whole of the French Republic.
– People screamed through the streets when the news came over the radio, which of course is very touching. And it was the same thing when we went from the restaurant – people stood on the sidewalks and applauded, it was such a beautiful thing to see.
Marie Modiano makes no secret of the father has hoped to be rewarded.
– When my parents came to visit me and Peter in Stockholm, where we stayed a few months in 2010, so we showed them the town and passed the Swedish Academy’s house in the old town and talked about what a dream it has been for him to become crowned … in this way as he is now.
They are visibly proud of the Patrick Modianos behalf, but not just for the global honor, but also because the Nobel Prize is just Swedish.
– Peter and I have been married for almost ten years and I am now very attached to Sweden. That’s the population of a small country, but for me it has great significance to me by friends, family and musicians colleagues found there, she says.
Peter von Poehl which sits next to the speakerphone, bursting of yet unanswered voicemails, adds:
– Patrick has been recognized in this way by just my country makes me enormously proud.
Nobel Prize in literature has distributed to far more than, say, French authors American. Do you have a specific cultural ties between our countries?
– Countless Swedish artists and painters’ve flocked to France by history, artistic, there are strong ties and a common respect for the artists. I grew up with books by authors such as August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg and films of Ingmar Bergman in my childhood home. And today, for example, Swedish Institute in Paris this very active and their events always attract a lot of people, it is very popular among the French, responds Marie Modiano.
Peter von Poehl describes how
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