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Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.

The British novelist, born in Japan, is best known for his novel “The Remains of the Day” (1989). The judges praised Ishiguro as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

Permanent secretary of the academy Sara Danius said immediately after the announcement, “If you mix Jane Austen and Kafka, you have Ishiguro — but you have to add a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix, and then you stir, but not too much, and then you have his writings. He’s developed an aesthetic universe all his own. He is exploring what you have to forget in order to survive in the first place as an individual or as a society.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature/2017/10/05/c9869a30-a91b-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_nobel-730am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.4fde096477be

another excellent article

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/books/nobel-prize-literature.html