Nobel Prize Wins Raises Patrick Modiano Sales

According to Publisher's Weekly "When Patrick Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature on October 9, Yale University Press, which had been planning a February 2015 release date for his novella collection Suspended Sentences, bumped up publication to November 11. Since then, the book has sold 2,688 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan. That may not be enough to land a spot on our Trade Paper list, but context is everything. Sales of his next bestselling book, 2004’sMissing Person, have increased exponentially, from a release-to-date count of 482 copies to sales last week of 1,133. All told, about 75% of the author’s U.S. sales over the past decade are directly attributable to the Nobel win, which has made 2014 a better year for Mondiano than the previous 10 years—combined."