English writer Kazuo Ishiguro recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature

English writer Kazuo Ishiguro is this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

As the press release says, he was awarded for his “novels of great emotional force”, in which he “has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

Ishiguro was born in 1954 in Nagasaki, and his family moved to England in 1960. He has written eight prose works so far.

Ishiguro’s most famous novel, The Remains of the Day, won the Man Booker Prize in 1989. His 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Let us remind that last year’s recipient was Bob Dylan.

The medal features the inscription: “Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes” (“And they who bettered life on earth by their newly found mastery”), taken from Virgil’s Aeneid.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded since 1901, and the first recipient was French poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Never Let Me Go

Nobel Prize recipient

Nobel Prize recipients

Nagasaki

Bob Dylan

Sully Prudhomme