{"id":1446,"date":"2017-10-06T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2017-10-06T16:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:22:16","slug":"alumnus-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2017\/10\/06\/alumnus-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who\u00a0studied for a\u00a0BA in English and Philosophy at Kent, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2017.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content-body\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"content-main\">\n<p>In awarding\u00a0the prize the judges\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2017\/press.pdf\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">praised his novels<\/span><\/u><\/a> for their\u00a0\u201cgreat emotional force\u201d and\u00a0the way in which his work has\u00a0\u201cuncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In July 1990 the University made\u00a0Kazuo Ishiguro an honorary Doctor of Letters and he has\u00a0won several high-profile awards for his novels, including the Booker Prize in 1989 for <em>Remains of the Day. <\/em>In\u00a02005,\u00a0<i>Time<\/i>\u00a0magazine named\u00a0<i><a title=\"Never Let Me Go (novel)\" href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2005\/10\/16\/all-time-100-novels\/slide\/never-let-me-go-2005-by-kazuo-ishiguro\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Never Let Me Go<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i>\u00a0on its list of the 100 greatest English language novels.<sup id=\"cite_ref-timesonline1945_22-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the news\u00a0Professor Wendy Parkins, Head of the School of English, said: \u2018We are delighted to hear that former Kent student Kazuo Ishiguro has received the Nobel Prize for Literature and the University offers its warmest congratulations on his success.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He is one of those rare writers whose work engages both our thoughts and emotions in a beguiling way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who\u00a0studied for a\u00a0BA in English and Philosophy at Kent, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2017. In awarding\u00a0the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2017\/10\/06\/alumnus-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,87526,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}