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| CC Mariusz Kubik |
The British author Kazuo Ishiguro said he was both honoured
and “taken completely by surprise” after he was named this year’s winner of the
2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, even initially wondering if the announcement
was a case of “fake news”.
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan but his family
moved to England in 1960 when he was five years old. Ishiguro studied creative writing at the
University of East Anglia and published his first novel, A pale view of the hills, in 1982.
He has since received four Man Booker Prize nominations for Never let me go, The buried giant and The remains of the day, winning the award for the latter in 1989.
In an interview
with Andrew Dunn, Ishiguro reflects on the themes that underpin his writing:
I'm interested in memory
because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy
and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a
writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened
rather than what actually happened.
You can learn more about the life and work of this remarkable
novelist via resources in the library
catalogue.
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