Prize watch: Congrats to Patrick Modiano, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014. Never heard of him. Seems I’m not alone, though: according to this article in The Guardian, “Modiano is well known in France but something of an unknown quantity for even widely read people in other countries.” His work sounds like stuff I would like though, so maybe I’ll give one of his books a try, assuming they’ve been translated to English.