Pollard, Niklas;Scrutton, Alistair.«Patrick Modiano, French Sephardic Novelist, Wins Nobel for Literature»(en anglès).Forward,9 octubre 2014.[Consulta: 19 juliol 2016].«Modiano, 69, was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt in July 1945, several months after the official end of Nazi occupation, to a Sephardic Jewish family with roots originally in Italy, and his ancestors, longtime inhabitants of Thessaloniki, Greece, included eminent rabbis.»