French-born Nobel literature laureate Patrick Modiano believes a new genre of memory writing could evolve with the help of the internet and social media.
Asked about the impact of new media on writing, Modiano said new technologies would inspire future writers to "capture fragments" and perhaps this would evolve into a new genre.
"In some ways the memory is stimulated by the challenge of things coming and going so very quickly, it has to respond to this new challenge," he said at the Swedish Academy headquarters.
As a writer, the laureate has been referred to as a contemporary Marcel Proust.
Many of his more than 30 works have centred on the German occupation in World War II in France, notably Paris.
The Swedish Academy awarded him the accolade "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".
Modiano is set to deliver his Nobel Prize lecture on Sunday.
On Wednesday, he will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm along with the winners of the science and economics prizes.
The Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
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