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Kazuo Ishiguro ("Remains of the Day" author) wins Nobel Prize for Literature
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-41513246...."He 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."
He said he hoped the Nobel Prize would be a force for good. "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," he said.
"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.".....(more)
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