Japan-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of the 1989 Man Booker Prize-winning "The Remains of the Day," received the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature on Sunday.
Ishiguro, 63, accepted a medal and diploma from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm. In selecting Ishiguro, the Swedish Academy said the author, "in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
His novels are most associated with memory, time and self-delusion, the academy said.