Kazuo Ishiguro hopes to do good with Nobel Prize

Author Kazuo Ishiguro hopes his 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature will help him do some good in an “uncertain world”.
The British novelist behind literary hits like The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go was named this year’s Nobel Prize recipient on Thursday (05Oct17) and told the BBC his latest accolade is “flabbergastingly flattering”.
The 62-year-old writer said, “It’s a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I’m in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that’s a terrific commendation.”
Kazuo hopes to use his Nobel Prize as a force for good, adding, “The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment.
“I’ll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.”
Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, Ishiguro has written eight acclaimed books.