The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to 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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