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2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
Date
  • 5 October 2017 (2017-10-05) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2017
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."[1] The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 5 October 2017.[2]

Ishiguro is the 12th British writer to become a Nobel laureate in Literature after 2008 laureate Doris Lessing. He was succeeded later by novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who became a Nobel laureate in 2021.

  1. ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2017". nobelprize.org.
  2. ^ "Price announcement". nobelprize.org.

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