Some of Kazuo Ishiguro’s best-known works include Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day. (Source: The Nobel Prize/ Twitter) Some of Kazuo Ishiguro’s best-known works include Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day. (Source: The Nobel Prize/ Twitter)British author Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct 5, at a ceremony in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize committee also said that Ishiguro was most associated with themes like memory, time and self-delusion. Sara Danius, who is the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said on Thursday,” If you mix Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, then you have Kazuo Ishiguro in a nutshell, but you have to add a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix.

Source: Indian Express October 05, 2017 13:56 UTC