British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize

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  • Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, announces the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 5 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.//AFP
  • This file photo taken on October 10, 2005 shows British author Kazuo Ishiguro posing with his book at Hatchards book store in London, prior to the announcement of the winner of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction.//AFP
  • Books of British writer Kazuo Ishiguro are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where Ishiguro was announced as winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 5. /AFP

British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize

ASEAN+ October 05, 2017 18:30

Stockholm – British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel “The Remains of the Day”, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.

    The 62-year-old, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,” the Academy wrote in its citation.

Born in Nagasaki, he moved to Britain with his family when he was five years old, only returning to visit Japan as an adult.

Both his first novel “A Pale View of Hills” from 1982 and the subsequent one, “An Artist of the Floating World” from 1986, take place in Nagasaki a few years after World War II.

“The themes Ishiguro is most associated with are already present here: memory, time, and self-delusion,” the Academy said.

“This is particularly notable in his most renowned novel, ‘The Remains of the Day’,” which was turned into a film with Anthony Hopkins acting as the duty-obsessed butler Stevens.

“Ishiguro’s writings are marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place,” it said.

Apart from his eight books, Ishiguro has also written scripts for film and television.//AFP

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