20 Friday, October 6, 2017 ‘Remains of the Day’ author Kazuo Ishiguro

wins Nobel Kazuo Ishiguro Stockholm connection with the world,” books as well as scripts for 1986, take place in a In a 1991 interview with Inspired by Fyodor ritish author Kazuo the Academy wrote in its film and television. few years after World War II. former Nobel laureate Dostoyevsky and Marcel Ishiguro, best known for citation. In 1989, he won the “The themes Ishiguro Kenzaburo Oe of Japan, he Proust, Ishiguro’s characters Bhis novel “The Remains of the Contacted by the BBC, Man for “The is most associated with are said the Japan he wrote about often painfully come to terms Day” and whose emotional Ishiguro said he was Remains of the Day”, which already present here: memory, in “An Artist In the Floating with who they are without uprooting from his native “flabbergastingly flattered” by was published the same year, time, and self-delusion,” the World” was “very much my closure. Japan has left an indelible the award. and in 1995, he was awarded Academy said. own personal, imaginary “If you mix and stamp on his work, won the “It’s a magnificent honour, the Order of the British “This is particularly Japan.” Franz Kafka then you have 2017 Nobel Literature Prize mainly because it means that Empire for his services to notable in his most renowned “This may have a lot to do Kazuo Ishiguro in a nutshell -- on Thursday. I’m in the footsteps of the literature. novel, ‘The Remains of the with my own personal history. but you have to add a little bit The 62-year-old, “in novels greatest authors that have Day’,” which was turned As a small child, I was taken of into the mix. of great emotional force, lived. So that’s a terrific ‘An exquisite novelist’ into a 1993 film starring away from the people I knew, And then you stir but not too has uncovered the abyss commendation,” he said. “This year’s laureate is a and Emma like my grandparents and my much, and then you have his beneath our illusory sense of Ishiguro has written eight brilliant and even exquisite Thompson. Charting the friends. writings,” Danius said. novelist,” Sara Danius, the life of a painfully shy, duty- “I couldn’t forget Japan His latest novel, “The permanent secretary of the obsessed English butler, the because I had to prepare Buried Giant” from 2015 , told the film was nominated for eight myself for returning to it. So explores “in a moving TT news agency after the Oscars. I grew up with a very strong manner, how memory announcement. “Ishiguro’s writings image in my head of this other relates to oblivion, history to She called “The Remains are marked by a carefully country, a very important the present, and fantasy to of the Day” a “masterpiece”, restrained mode of expression, other country to which I had a reality,” the Academy noted. and described the author as a independent of whatever strong emotional tie,” he said. In the book, an elderly “writer of great integrity” who events are taking place,” the “I’m beginning to see as couple go on a road trip developed his own “aesthetic Academy said. I get older that my leaving through an archaic English universe”. Japan at the point when I did landscape, hoping to reunite Born in Nagasaki in 1954, ‘I was taken away’ was, in complicated ways, a with their adult son, whom The in Literature for 2017 has been awarded to British writer nine years after the US In a 1989 interview with Bomb key defining thing,” he said they have not seen for years. Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered dropped a nuclear bomb on Magazine, Ishiguro said: “I in a 1995 interview with the His publisher Faber & the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world” the city, Ishiguro moved to tend to be attracted to pre-war Financial Times. Faber wrote on Twitter after RECENT LAUREATES Britain with his family when and post-war settings because His more recent fiction the announcement, “We’re 2016: , 2012: , China U.S. he was five years old. He only I’m interested in this business contains elements of fantasy. THRILLED Kazuo Ishiguro 2011: Tomas Tranströmer, Sweden 2015: Svetlana returned to visit Japan as an of values and ideals being With the critically- has won the Nobel Prize!” , Alexievich, Belarus 2010: Peru adult some three decades later. tested, and people having to acclaimed dystopian work Ishiguro, who early in his Herta Mueller, 2014: Patrick 2009: Germany Both his first novel “A Pale face up to the notion that their “” from life wanted to be a rock star, “a Modiano, France 2008: J.M.G. Le Clézio, France View of Hills” from 1982 and ideals weren’t quite what they 2005, Ishiguro introduced “a new Dylan or something”, was 2013: , Canada 2007: , UK the subsequent one, “An Artist thought they were before the cold undercurrent” of science not among those tipped for Source: Nobelprize.org Pictures: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS of the Floating World” from test came.” fiction into his work. this year’s Nobel. (AFP) Egypt unearths 4,300-year-old Pharaonic obelisk in Giza Cairo Swiss archaeological mission rchaeologists have from Gueneva University in discovered part of a cooperation and coordination APharaonic obelisk dating back with the Egyptian Ministry of to about 4,300 years ago in Antiquities. Saqqara district on the outskirt “The importance of this of Egypt’s Giza Province, the discovery is that it belongs chief of the country’s Supreme to one of the females of the Council of Antiquities (SCA) ancient royal family as she said in a statement Wednesday. was of the throne SCA Secretary General during the first reign of her Mostafa al-Waziri revealed the son who came to power at the discovery of the upper part of age of six,” said Waziri in the an obelisk belonging to ancient statement. Egyptian Queen Ankhesenpepi He added that the mission II, mother of Pharaonic King also found an ancient cartouche Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty on the side of the obelisk who ruled Egypt from 2278 to reading in Hieroglyphics the 2184 BC. first letters of “Neferkare,” the Representative image The discovery was Horus throne title name of unearthed by a French- King Pepi II Neferkare.