The Nobel prize for literature awarded to the British Kazuo Ishiguro

This British of japanese origin is notably the author of " Remains of the day ". The Nobel committee praised the "great emotional intensity" of his novels.The Nobel prize in literature in 2017 has been awarded, Thursday, October 5,, the british writer of japanese descent Kazuo Ishiguro, which follows the musician and poet Bob Dylan rewarded the previous year.

Kazuo Ishiguro, 62 years old, "revealed in the novels of great emotional strength, the abyss under the illusion that we have of our relationship to the world," said the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, in the announcement ritual in the gold room of the stock Exchange in Stockholm.

"It is an honour beautiful, mainly because it means that I walk in the footsteps of the greatest writers of all time, it is a recognition fantastic, he told the BBC. The world is going through a great period of uncertainty and I would like that all of the Nobel prize can be a positive force in the world. "A mix of" Jane Austen and Kafka "

His best-known work, the Remains of The day (1989), shown at the cinema in 1993 by James Ivory with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, has been honored with the prestigious Man Book Prize, which rewards a work of the English language. "If one combines Jane Austen and Kafka, one obtains Kazuo Ishiguro," added Sara Danius.