Kazou Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

After last year'a silliness of awarding the prize to Bob Dylan, this year the Nobel people decided to give the award to a proper novelist who even writes accessible books. I've read three of his books all the way through, including Remains of the Day, which you can watch in a film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve and Sir John Gielgud. I also tried reading his arty novel called The Unconsoled which was written as a kind of dream fiction and didn't make a lot of sense to me. I also read half of Never Let Me Go which just seems to be about a bunch of kids at a boarding school or something. I gave up on that one as I began to doubt anything interesting was going to happen in it.

Anyway, I took a bit of enjoyment in telling my wife, "guess who won the Nobel prize for literature..."

"Was it a Japanese writer?"

"No, a British writer!"

"Who?"

"Kazou Ishiguro!"

Anyway, any thoughts? Any arguments? Any we-woz-robbeders?

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