JUST IN: British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in Literature.

'The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,' a release by the Swedish Academy said.

Kazuo Ishiguro has written eight books, as well as scripts for film and television

Ishiguro's most renowned novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), was turned into film with Anthony Hopkins as the butler Stevens.

The themes Ishiguro is most associated with are: memory, time, and self-delusion.

Ishiguro's latest novel, The Buried Giant (2015) explores how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality.

With the dystopian work Never Let Me Go (2005), Ishiguro introduced a cold undercurrent of science fiction into his work.

Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Japan. His family moved to the United Kingdom when he was five years old.

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