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Kazuo Ishiguro Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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It's on the official Nobel Prize website:
https://www.nobelprize.org/ It doesn't seem to be uncommon for people to find out they've won the literature prize from the press. Famously happened with Doris Lessing: |
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Oh, I wasn't questioning the authenticity. I just found it amusing that the prize was so out of left field that the author himself thought it might be a hoax.
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"The Remains of the Day" is a wonderful book. Well worth reading, if anyone hasn't done so.
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I keep meaning to read but the movie was already very powerful. I'd need to be in a very happy place to cope with the emotional gut punch if the book's as good or better. I've only read "Never Let Me Go" of his but I did enjoy it. |
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I thought the film was pretty good. Beautifully shot. Definitely towards the better end of book adaptations.
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Stedman appears to have only written a single novel, in 2012 (which I must admit I hadn't heard of). The Nobel tends to be more of a recognition of lifetime achievement, rather than being awarded for a single work. One novel written within the last 5 years is insufficient to determine whether an author is going to make a lasting impression on the literary world, I would suggest.
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