The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
Awarded on: 2017-10-05
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"
Kazuo Ishiguro
Born: 1954-11-08 in Nagasaki, Japan
Gender: male
Field: British writer and Nobel Laureate (born 1954)
Biography
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".