Kazuo Ishiguro is master of buried secrets

Kazuo Ishiguro Source: Ill: N. Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of "Remains of the Day", has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. Japan-born Ishiguro won the Man Booker Prize for the 1989 novel that was made into an Oscar-nominated movie. The Swedish Academy hailed his ability to reveal "the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

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