We were all looking forward to the name of the lucky winner. The Nobel Committee rewarded yesterday, Thursday, October 5, 2017, the British author of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro for all of his literary work.
He succeeds the poet-musician Bob Dylan, who had created a surprise by receiving the supreme literary distinction the previous year.
Born in 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, a martyred city razed by the H-bomb in 1945, Kazuo Ishiguro arrived in Britain in 1960. His work testifies to this double culture. Kazuo Ishiguro, 62, "revealed, in novels of powerful emotional force, the abyss beneath our illusory sense of comfort in the world," according to the Nobel Prize's decision-making committee.
He said he was "embarrassed" to receive the award, "when so many great authors have not yet been awarded," citing Japan's Haruki Murakami, often favourite but never crowned, Canada's Margaret Atwood and Britain's Salman Rushdie.
Described as a "masterpiece" by the Swedish Academy, his best-known novel, Remains of the Day (1989), was brought to the screen in 1993 by James Ivory with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson and hailed by the prestigious Man Booker Prize for an English-language work.
We let you discover the trailer of this adaptation, and if you want to immerse yourself in the world of the new Nobel Prize in Literature, you can also watch Never Let Me Go, the adaptation of his novel With me, always, with Keira Knightley.
