Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to England with his parents at age 5. “He’s exploring what you have to forget to survive as an individual and a society.” “He’s not out to redeem the past,” she said. Danius declined to comment, in a streaming interview, on how the selection of Ishiguro might be received. The decision made headlines, not all of them good. Last year, the Nobel in literature was awarded to American musician Bob Dylan, citing his work as poetry. Sara Danius of the Swedish Academy said, “If you mix Jane Austen and Franz Kafka you have Ishiguro in a nutshell - and you have to add a bit of Proust into the mix.” Ulin in a review of 2015’s “The Buried Giant,” Ishiguro’s most recent novel, which is set in the time of King Arthur’s England. Ishiguro’s “books share a fascination with memory, identity, with the tension between obligation and desire,” wrote Times book critic David L. Ishiguro is the author of seven novels, a short-story collection and work for the screen.
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