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British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature

Awarding Swedish Academy said Ishiguro "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"
05 Oct, 2017

British author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The awarding Swedish Academy said of Ishiguro: "[Kazuo Ishiguro] who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

The author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro’s writing, said the Academy, is “marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place," reports The Guardian.

The accolade has always been a tough prize to predict. Many were shocked when last year's award was won by Bob Dylan, who became the first person to win who's primarily known as a singer and songwriter.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 109 times to 113 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2016. In 2015, the Swedish Academy also made an unexpected choice in giving the award to Belarus' Svetlana Alexievich, whose non-fiction works explores topics related to the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad Oct 05, 2017 05:04pm
Welcome to the club of Nobel prize laureates. However, unlike Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto shame and sham leader of Burma, kindly show the courage, guts, fortitude, resilience and the grit to call a spade a spade, for rest of your life. May God Almighty bless you and your loved ones. Aameen, Tsum Aameen.
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an expatriate Oct 05, 2017 05:46pm
Congratulation to Kazuo Ishiguro for the Noble Prize in literature which still has respect. Unfortunately Noble Peace Prize was always political and has become "PIECE PRIZE)- a divisive prize due to actions/inactions by many of its former recipients.
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M. Emad Oct 05, 2017 06:26pm
Bengali novelist, poet and philisopher Rabindranath Tagore won the 1913 Nobel prize in literature.
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Dr.Cajetan Coelho Oct 05, 2017 07:44pm
Congratulations to Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Jamil Soomro, NEW YORK CITY Oct 06, 2017 05:27am
@M. Emad He was Bengali from Calcutta not from Dacca?
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