Which work did Kazuo Ishiguro win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

The Nobel Prize in Literature is not awarded for a specific work. At 13:00 on October 5, 2017 local time in Sweden, at the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced that the winner of the Literature Prize was the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro.

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954——), a Japanese-British novelist. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on November 8, 1954. He moved to the UK with his family in 1960, graduated from the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia, and obtained British citizenship in 1982.

He began publishing novels in 1983, and his main works include "Lan Scenery of the Mountains", "The Painter of the Floating World" and "The End of the Day". He has won many awards including the 1989 Booker Prize, the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Order of the British Empire, and the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Together with Rushdie and Naipaul, he is known as the "Three Heroes of British Literary Immigrants."

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Character evaluation of Kazuo Ishiguro:

1. Kazuo Ishiguro is a great craftsman. (Comments by Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood)

2. Kazuo Ishiguro is an outstanding and original writer of the entire generation. (Comments by playwright Susan Hill)

3. Kazuo Ishiguro is an original genius. ("New York Times" review)

4. Kazuo Ishiguro is a "moving poet who sings about the past." (Reviewed by American writer Joyce Carol Oates)

5. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels, with their huge emotional power, unearth the hidden truths hidden under the illusion of our connection with the world. abyss. (Nobel Prize for Literature Award Speech)

6. Kazuo Ishiguro is a very upright writer. He didn't just see one side of things, he opened up an entire universe of beauty on his own. He was deeply interested in understanding the past, but he was more than a Proustian writer.

He's not just retelling the past, he's exploring what you have to forget in order to survive as an individual or as a society.

(Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sarah Danius)

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Kazuo Ishiguro