Acclaimed French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for literature.
He was described by the Nobel committee as a modern-day Marcel Proust.
Mr Modiano, who was born in Paris at the end of the Second World War, is known for chronicling the life in the city under Nazi occupation.
The title of his first novel, La place de l’etoile (The Star’s Place), was a reference to the yellow star Jews were forced to wear. The work includes Jewish characters.
