Revealing the abyss

The 2017 Nobel Prize in the literature of 2017 was awarded to the British writer of Japanese descent, Cazuo Ishiguro, who "in the novels of great emotional power revealed the abyss lurking under our illusory sense of communication with the world." This was reported on the website of the Nobel Committee.

Ishiguro was born in 1954 in Nagasaki, in 1960 his family moved to the UK. The first stories of the writer were published in 1981.

In 1989, the Third Roman Isiguro, The Remain of the Day, was published. This is a monologue-removal of an elderly English butler. The novel was awarded the Buker Prize, and the jury declared him the winner unanimously. Ishiguro is a member of the Royal Literary Society.

Ishiguro's works have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​of the world, including Russian - the novels "The Remain of the day", "When we were orphans", "Do not let me go", "where the hills are in the haze."

Last year, the American poet and singer Bob Dylan became the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded with the wording "for creating new means of poetic expressiveness in the framework of the great American song tradition." The 2015 Nobel Prize was awarded to the writer from Belarus Svetlana Aleksievich "for her polyphonic work - a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

This year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was received by scientists from the USA Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rozbash and Michael Young for the study of molecular mechanisms that regulate the circus rhythms of the body. The winners of the Physics Prize were the Americans Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for the discovery of gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago. The award in the field of chemistry was received by the Swiss Jacques Dubosha, German Joachim Frank and Scot Richard Henderson with the wording "for the development of high -resolution cryoelectronic microscopy to determine the structure of biomolecules in the solution."