British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro, the 62-year-old novelist whose awe-inspiring works such as "The Remains of the Day", "Never Let Me Go" and other novels shared memory's lasting pain and menacing illusions in accurate and sophiticated prose, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday and awarded with 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize.

The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

The Japanese-born writer told the BBC that the award was "flabbergastingly flattering", the broadcaster reported on its website.

Kazuo Ishiguro was inundated with members of the press at his north London home after his award was announced. (AFP/GETTY)

“It’s a magnificent honor, mainly because it means that I‘m in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that’s a terrific commendation,” he was quoted as saying.

Ishiguro hoped that the prize would be a force for good.

"The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment."

“I’ll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time," he said Thursday, speaking in his backyard in north London. (Shelley Valencia)

Sources:

Associated Press news, accessed on Friday, October 6, 2017
BBC, accessed on Friday, October 6, 2017
Reuters, accessed on Friday, October 6, 2017

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