Nobel literature prize

                                   KAZUO ISHIGURO

                 British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day", won the Nobel Literature prize.He is 62 years old.  In novels of great emotional force, he has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.

            Ishiguro has written eight books as well as scripts for film and television.He won the Man Booker Prize in 1989 for "The Remains of the Day".He was born in Nagasaki in 1954. He moved to Britain with his father when he was five years old, only returning to visit Japan as an adult.Both his first novel "A Pale View of Hills" from 1982 and the subsequent one, "An Artist of the Floating World" from 1986, take place in Nagasaki a few years after World War 2.He is known for his spare yet emotionally resonate prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres.He is also known for his novel "Never Let Me Go", a melancholy dystopian love story set in a British boarding school.He has obsessively returned to the same themes in his novels, which are often written in the first person, including the fallibility of memory, mortality and the porous nature of time.

                Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as "a writer of great integrity." In an interview with The Times two years ago, Ishiguro said that he had discovered literature as a young boy when he came upon Sherlock Holmes stories in the local library.