Others would perhaps know of Ishiguro for having won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his “novels of great emotional force”, which according to the Academy, have “uncovered the abyss beneath our illustory sense of connection with the world”. Most GCSE, A Levels (and to some extent, IB) English students would likely have studied Ishiguro (the process which – depending on the quality of teaching received – may have caused bad blood between the ‘forced’ student reader and the writer). That’s because authors like Kazuo Ishiguro have set the bar high on this score. It’s even harder to find lucid prose with emotional and intellectual depth. It’s hard to find lucid prose these days.
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