Japanese-English writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature

The 62-year-old novelist was named in the ceremony announced in Sweden, on October 5.

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature was announced by the Swedish Academy at 13:00 (local time, 18h Hanoi).Kazuo Ishiguro was named while Haruki Murakami - a Japanese novelist - continued to have no affinity for the award. Kazuo Ishiguro will receive a reward of nine million krona from Sweden (over 1.1 million USD).

Sara Danius - Swedish Academy Secretary - Kazuo Ishiguro's literary description is aesthetics, a combination of Jane Austen, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust."With his abundant emotions, his literature awakens the deep, mysterious corner of us in relation to the world," Sara Danius said.

She calls Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day a "true masterpiece". After awarding Bob Dylan a lot of noise last year, Sara Danius hopes this year's award "makes the world happy".

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Author Kazuo Ishiguro.(Photo: The Guardian).

Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Japan. He and his family moved to England in 1960. Kazuo graduated from Kent University in 1978. In 1989, he won the Man Booker for the novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, he was named by the Times magazine as one of the 50 greatest writers in England since 1945.

His novel Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day have been adapted into films. In addition, he is a screenwriter for A Profile of Arthur J. Mason, The Gourmet, The Saddest Music in the World and The White Countess.

Some of his works that have been published in Vietnam are the oversleeping Giant, Forever not far away from me, The Night: Five stories about music and nightfall .

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Haruki Murakami continued to get a high bet but did not win.

Previously, according to the odds of the dealer Ladbrokes, Nguog wa wa Thiong'o was at the top of the list with a ratio of 4/1 (one to four), Haruki Murakami was placed at a rate of 5/1 (one to eat five ), the rate set for female Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is 6/1 (one to eat six).

Last year, the Swedish Academy was surprised to announce Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in Literature. He is said to have "created new poetic expressions within the great music tradition of America". The decision of the Swedish Academy created controversy when he was a musician, a singer and not a literary author. After that, the Nobel Committee could not contact Bob Dylan. He was also absent from the awards ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10 last year. By April 1, Bob Dylan had just received a medal and a prize certificate.

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