Nobel Prizes

Author Kazuo Ishiguro poses for the media outside his home, following the announcement that he has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in London, Britain, on Oct. 5, 2017.

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Literature Prize

October 5, 2017Books

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel “The Remains of the Day” and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.

In an archive photo, student Mary Duke Webber uses a microscope at Duke University at some time in the late 1930s.

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