The Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the awarding Swedish Academy said as quoted by the BBC. 

Ishiguro, 62, who is known for novels such as A Pale View of Hills (1982), The Remains of the Day (1989) and Never Let Me Go (2005), wins $1.1 million.

The Stockholm-based academy said his books show "great emotional force" and uncover "the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

Source: MENA)