Pollard, Niklas; Scrutton, Alistair. «Patrick Modiano, French Sephardic Novelist, Wins Nobel for Literature» (en anglès). Forward, 09-10-2014. [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.»