Nobel Prize for Literature 2017: And the Winner is…

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2017. The author who was hotly tipped to win last year, and lost out to Bob Dylan was praised by the Swedish academy as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

The much loved author has released eight books to date, and these novels have been translated into more than forty languages. His best known works are Never Let Me Go, and Remains of the Day, both of which have been adapted into major movies.

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan and his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five years old. To date Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the world, winning the Man Booker in 1989 for Remains of the Day and receiving three further nominations for the prize. This in addition to a slate of other prizes including the Whitbread Prize, the Granta Prize twice, an OBE and now the Novel Prize for Literature 2017.

The author will now be invited to give a lecture during Nobel Week in Stockholm, which includes the prize giving ceremony and banquet, this is expected to take place on 10th December.