English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature.
The £832,000 Nobel Prize, which has been awarded since 1901, is for the writing of an author who, in the words of Alfred Nobel’s bequest, “shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”.
Ishiguro becomes the 114th winner, following in the footsteps of writers including Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, Mo Yan and Pablo Neruda.
Ishiguro received praise from the Swedish Academy, who they said “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”
Kenyan renowned author, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, was among the writers shortlisted for the award, as well as Margaret Atwood and Haruki Murakami.
The Academy said Ishiguro’s work is “marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place”.
The Brit authored The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
The 2017 Literature Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 (age 62) in Japan. Bio-bibliography: https://t.co/zxJ3zwvrlc
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s most renowned novel, ”The Remains of the Day” (1989), was turned into film with Anthony Hopkins as the butler Stevens.
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Ishiguro’s latest novel, “The Buried Giant” (2015) explores how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality.
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With the dystopian work “Never Let Me Go” (2005), Ishiguro introduced a cold undercurrent of science fiction into his work.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s most renowned novel, ”The Remains of the Day” (1989), was turned into film with Anthony Hopkins. https://t.co/nW3g3BNfkV
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