Nobel Prize for Literature Account Beats Ismail Kadare
(9 years ago)The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2017 went to British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, who, according to the Swedish Academy, with his novel “don't let me go”, is considered one of the novels of great emotional power. His writing style was described by the secretary of the Academy, Sarah Danius, as a mixture [...]
His style of writing was described by Academy Secretary Sara Danius as a mixture of novelist Jane Austen, German novelist Franz Kafka, and the French man Marcel Proust.
Ishiguro, born in Nagasaki in Japan. And when Nobel's winner was five years old, his family moved to Great Britain. He graduated from the University of Kent in 1978 and finished his master at England University in 1980.
The academy has estimated that the topics of the Kazuo Ishiguro literature laureate for 2017 are related to memory, time and self-deception.
The last novel of Ishiguros “The Buried Giant”, published in 2015, speaks of forgetting, present history, and fantasy about reality.
While in the novel “Never Let With Go” published in 2005, Ishiguro has presented a feeling of peace with the work he has done.
His book “also appeared on screens in 2005 by director James Ivory. And so was the novel “Never Let With Go”, in 2010 became a movie by director Mark Romanek, where actors played Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield.
Ishiguro after receiving the award has told the BBC that winning this award is a great honor, because that means I'm on the track of the greatest authors who ever lived.
“Bota is in a very uncertain moment and I hope that all Nobel awards will be a force for something positive in the world as it is at this moment”, has continued his speech, Ishiguro.
Salman Rushdie, a friend of the author, told of the “The Guardian” that he wished his friend for the prize won.
Thank you very much for my old friend, whose work I've loved and admired, he's a very good writer and certainly doesn't deserve contempt”, Salman Rushdie said.
Ishiguro has completed seven novels and several scenarios, stories and songs.
Spending most of his life in Britain, the 62-year-old has rejected comparisons with other Japanese authors, saying in an interview in 1990.
The race was Don DeLillo of America, Margaret Atiood of Canada, born poet in Syria, Adonis, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakai, writer from Kenya, Ngugi Wa Thiongão, Amos Oz and David Grossman of Israel, Claudio Magris of Italy, Ismail Kadare of Albania, and France's Michel Howellbeq.
Last year the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to singer and composer Bob Dylan. / KultPlus. com