Announcing the award, Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
Ishiguro, who is of Japanese origin, is the 110th winner of the literary accolade.
The Swedish Academy received and approved 240 proposals for this year’s literature prize, resulting in 195 candidates, it said.
