2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 5 October 2017.

The citation

The citation reads: "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

The laureate

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan.

Why it matters

The British novelist, born in Nagasaki and raised in Guildford, is best known for The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

The prize

The prize is worth 9 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.