Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel prize in literature 2017. (Source: KXM/ YouTube) Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel prize in literature 2017. (Source: KXM/ YouTube)To borrow and rephrase from Bob Dylan, last year’s Nobel awardee for literature, how many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a Nobel winner? While the choice of Dylan was an inspired one and showed us that the board that presides over the Nobel isn’t as staid as one would have thought, but somehow, the announcement of Kazuo Ishiguro as this year’s choice made the heart actually sing. And as author Salman Rushdie pointed out, after the win, “And he plays the guitar and writes songs, too!

Source: Indian Express October 07, 2017 04:52 UTC