The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro
7th October, 2017Category: International
Ishiguro, born in Japan, is known for novels such as A Pale View of Hills (1982), The Remains of the Day (1989) and Never Let Me Go (2005). His most recent book The Buried Giant was published in the year 2015.
"The Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go", was praised by the Swedish Academy for novels which “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world†and were driven by a “great emotional forceâ€.
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki in the year 1954, and in 1982 he became British citizen in. While Ishiguro has gone on record to say that Marcel Proust and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have been his greatest influences, he has often been compared to contemporaries Sulman Rushdie. His book Never Let Me Go, is in the list of Time Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest English language novels.
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