Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 2017 Nobel Prize In Literature!

Kazuo Ishiguro has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.

According to Guardian, the Japanese-British novelist has been praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”, and the academy added that Ishiguro’s works “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

This unprecedented announcement came at a time when booksellers predicted names like Margaret Atwood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Haruki Murakami. However, Ishiguro’s surprising and satisfying win comes a year after Bob Dylan won the prize and stirred major controversy and conversations on forms of literature.

Ishiguro’s books include Booker Prize winning title Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day. The Academy, described these works as “marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place”




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