STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Japanese-born Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel
Prize for Literature for uncovering "the abyss beneath our illusory sense
of connection with the world," the Swedish Academy said on Thursday on
awarding the 9 million crown ($1.1 million) prize.
The award marks a return to a more mainstream interpretation of
literature after the 2016 prize went to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been
awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in
accordance with his will.
(Reporting by Simon Johnson and Justyna Pawlak,
additional reporting by Anna Ringstrom, Niklas Pollard, Johannes Hellstrom and
Daniel Dickson)
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