This works, including scripts for film and television, look at themes of memory, time and self delusion. 62 year old English Author Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel literature Prize for 2017, the Nobel comes with a prize of about $1.1 million. The writer said that the award was "flattering". He said "it's a unique honour, mainly because it means that i am the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a commendation."
Ishiguro was born in Japan in 1954, after which he moved to England with his family. He read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent and studied an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His first acclaimed Novel A Pale View of Hills (1982) was his thesis. Ishiguro has written eight books, which have been translated into over 40 languages. This is not the first award he is winning as he won the Booker prize in 1989 for the Remains of the Day, which was turned into an Oscar nominated film.
This works, including scripts for film and television, look at themes of memory, time and self delusion. 62 year old English Author Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel literature Prize for 2017, the Nobel comes with a prize of about $1.1 million. The writer said that the award was "flattering". He said "it's a unique honour, mainly because it means that i am the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a commendation."
Ishiguro was born in Japan in 1954, after which he moved to England with his family. He read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent and studied an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His first acclaimed Novel A Pale View of Hills (1982) was his thesis. Ishiguro has written eight books, which have been translated into over 40 languages. This is not the first award he is winning as he won the Booker prize in 1989 for the Remains of the Day, which was turned into an Oscar nominated film.
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