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Kazuo Ishiguro wins the 2017 Nobel prize for Literature

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Channel: Rajamanickam Antonimuthu · 2017 · News & Politics

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro .

 Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. The family moved to the United Kingdom when he was five years old; he returned to visit his country of birth only as an adult. In the late 1970s, Ishiguro graduated in English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, and then went on to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Kazuo Ishiguro has been a full-time author ever since his first book, “A Pale View of Hills” (1982). Both his first novel and the subsequent one, “An Artist of the Floating World” (1986) take place in Nagasaki a few years after the Second World War. The themes Ishiguro is most associated with are, memory, time, and self-delusion. This is particularly notable in his most renowned novel, “The Remains of the Day” (1989), which was turned into film with Anthony Hopkins acting as the duty-obsessed butler Stevens.

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

Read more details about Kazuo Ishiguro at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro
News Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.html

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