Kazuo Ishiguro awarded with Nobel Prize in literature

December 11, 2017

London- Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature at an award ceremony in Stockholm on Sunday.

Ishiguro, 63, was introduced by Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, and awarded with the prize medal and diploma by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Danius said that with every new book, Ishiguro investigates a new genre-mix, with elements of the detective story, science fiction and myth, and that he has widened the window of the novel.

"It's a fantastic feeling," Ishiguro said on television after the ceremony.

Born in the city of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, in 1954 to Japanese parents, Ishiguro moved to Britain at the age of five with his family.

His 1982 debut novel "A Pale View of Hills," which depicted Japan from his memories, gained a high reputation.

Ishiguro won the Man Booker Prize, known as one of the most prestigious honors in the British literature world, for his 1989 novel "The Remains of the Day."

His 2005 novel "Never Let Me Go" was turned into a TV drama in Japan.

In his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday, Ishiguro stressed the importance of literature in a difficult world increasingly becoming divided with widening gaps between the rich and the poor.

"Good writing and good reading will break down barriers," Ishiguro said. Jiji Press