Last Thursday, Kazuo Ishiguro – a writer I’ve known for close on 40 years – was awarded the 2017 Nobel prize for literature. Play Video 1:00 'I thought it was a hoax': Kazuo Ishiguro on winning the Nobel prize in literature – videoBritain’s newest literary Nobel laureate was born in Nagasaki in 1954. But he’d already acquired the amateur spirit of the English literary tradition. He generally seemed like that rare being, an artist without ego, though I knew that he was inwardly dedicated to deeply held beliefs and attitudes. We have remained friends ever since, and although I no longer edit his work, Ish and I always meet to catch up, usually over a Chinese meal, a tradition in our long relationship.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2017 07:30 UTC