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The Permanent Secretary
Press release
5 October 2017
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.
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