Literature Nobel Prize 2014 - This award is always one full of controversy. It's like the Oscar Awards but of books so, it couldn't be in any other way. There are always an argument as to who'll win and after an author has won, if it was the favorite one or not. This year, the Nobel Prize of Literature has gone to Patrick Modiano.

Who is Patrick Modiano? He is a 69 year-old French novelist who wrote close to 30 books, which are mainly novels but also children's books and movie scripts. One famous script, for example, is Lacombe Lucien (1974), directed by Louis Malle and written in collaboration between the two of them.

Today, as the Nobel committee in Sweden gave the award, they said that Patrick Modiano was honored "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of occupation," as CNN noted.

Also, Peter Englund, the Secretary of the Swedish Accademy, recommended Missing Person from Patrick Modiano, which is about a detective who loses his memory and fights to know who he is.

Englund stated as well that Patrick Modiano is very well-known in France but not in the rest of the world.

One of the great bets, according to the Huffington Post to win was Haruki Murakami, who in the last years has been a very prolifically read author in the entire world. Some of his most well-known novels are: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1994) and Kafka On The Shore (2002).

He was truly the big favorite because people are reading him all over and his has a poetic style which attracts immensely. Patrick Modiano, on the other hand, has been said by Englund to have a rather simple style and revolves always on the themes of memory and identity.