Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel prize in literature
The Swedish Academy has chosen Kazuo Ishiguro as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday morning, NPR reported.
The academy's citation for Ishiguro said he is a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world," the source said.
Ishiguro, 62, is a British novelist who was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and whose family moved to Britain when he was five. He has said that as a kid, he used TV Westerns — like Bonanza and Wagon Train — to help him learn English.
Ishiguro's most well-known work is likely The Remains of the Day, a 1989 novel about an English household in the 1930s that was later adapted into a feature film.