pic.twitter.com/7IcRm5Bb2fSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of “Remains of the Day,” has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. Japan-born Ishiguro won the Man Booker Prize for the 1989 novel that was made into an Oscar-nominated movie. The Swedish Academy hailed his ability to reveal “the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro pic.twitter.com/j9kYaeMZH6 — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2017The works of Ishiguro, who moved to Britain as a young child, often touch on memory, time and self-delusion, the Academy said. Books by 2017 Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro at the Swedish Academy today #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/G86Ri4ajnq — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2017

Source: Huffington Post October 05, 2017 11:07 UTC