That’s really a question of technique more than anything else. Oe discusses Ishiguro’s reception in Japan, where he is thought of as a “quiet” and stylistically Japanese writer. The two discuss Japan, England, and the cultural clichés surrounding both Japanese literature in the West and Western literature in Japan. Two interviews with Ishiguro delve into his themes, and a conversation with the Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe is particularly interesting. His novels deal with national identity, memory, trauma, and the various ways humans repress and avoid their painful histories. Ishiguro’s work itself is often about things hidden in plain sight. His last book was 2015’s The Buried Giant, a stylistic departure that took cues from the fantasy literature of Tolkien, as well as the myths and legends of the British Isles.Īlmost all of his work has been praised critically, but he was not often mentioned among the likely winners in the run-up to this year’s announcement. It’s fitting that Ishiguro should be chosen for the prize this year. Ishiguro has been writing since the early 1980s, and his books like The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have been adapted to Hollywood films. Kazuo Ishiguro, an English novelist, won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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