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My twentieth century evening and other small breakthroughs : the Nobel lecture.

by Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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Knopf Canada, 2017.

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- -- Speeches, addresses, etc.

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View Kazuo Ishiguro's 2017 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

9780735276130 (hc.)

45 pages ; 17 cm.

"The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and When We Were Young) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career - "small scruffy moments ... quiet, private sparks of revelation" - that made him the writer he is today. With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean - what it will demand of us - to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential"--Provided by publisher.

"Kazuo Ishiguro, born in 1954, is a Nobel Prize-winning English novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy and gained his master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is considered one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received the 1989 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Remains of the Day. His 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, was named by Time as the best novel of 2005. Growing up in a Japanese family in the UK was crucial to his writing, as he says, enabling him to see things from a different perspective from many of his British peers. In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"--From wikipedia.org website.

Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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