The Nobel Academy has announced Japanese born British author Kazuo Ishiguro as the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize For Literature.
He was listed along with Margaret Atwood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Haruki Murakami as nominees. His selection came as a surprise to many literary critics and the Swedish body described his works as ‘novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.’
Born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1955, he moved to the UK when he was five years old. He graduated from the University of Kent in 1978 and completed his Master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia’s in 1980.
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His work includes the 1989 The Remains of the Day (which was made into a movie featuring Anthony Hopkins), Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant among several others.
Ishiguro has seven novels and several screenplays, short stories and song lyrics.
