Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Japanese-born, naturalised British writer is the author of the bestseller Never Let Me Go.
Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Japanese-born, naturalised British writer is the author of the bestseller Never Let Me Go.
Kazuo Ishiguro has received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, because "in novels of great emotional force, he has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro
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Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Ishiguro moved to the United Kingdom with his family at the age of six. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, is set in post-war Japan and is a tribute to his personal history. His next book, The Remains of the Day, is among the author's most celebrated works and is written in diary form: the narrator is an English butler, whose story was later brought to the screen in a film starring Oscar-winning actors Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. In 2005, Ishiguro won the American Alex Award for the novel Never Let Me Go, which also became a film.
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Some information about the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for the first time in 1901. Dario Fo was the last Italian author to receive it, in 1997, for "following in the tradition of the medieval jesters in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden." Last year the Nobel went instead to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who caused a stir by failing to attend the award ceremony.