{"id":7968,"date":"2017-10-05T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2020-01-23T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:15:05","slug":"alumnus-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/10\/05\/alumnus-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/literature.britishcouncil.org\/writer\/kazuo-ishiguro\">Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a>, who graduated with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/309\/english-literature-and-philosophy\">BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0from Kent, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n<p>In awarding the prize, the judges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2017\/press.pdf\">praised his novels<\/a> for their &#8216;great emotional force&#8217; and\u00a0the way in which his work has &#8216;uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In July 1990 the University made Kazuo Ishiguro an honorary Doctor of Letters and he has won 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> magazine included <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\/\">Never Let Me Go<\/a><\/i>\u00a0on its list of the 100 greatest English language novels.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/forbes.html\">Dr Graeme Forbes<\/a>,\u00a0Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>, said: \u2018We couldn\u2019t be prouder of our alumni, and we feel honoured to have Kazuo Ishiguro among them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People not familiar with philosophy sometimes ask &#8220;what can you do with that?&#8221;. His novels provide a compelling answer to this question: you can make us laugh, make us cry, and make us reflect deeply on the world around us, sometimes all at once.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018His Nobel Prize is a recognition of how valuable a thing that is to do with philosophy, and how well he has done it.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who graduated with a\u00a0BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy\u00a0from Kent, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In awarding the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/10\/05\/alumnus-kazuo-ishiguro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11932,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/11932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}