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Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature and its 9m Swedish krona purse ($1,095,939.52) was awarded to  in a ceremony broadcast live online. The British author has written seven novels, most recently , and in 1989 he won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for . As of this morning’s standings on popular British betting site , Ishiguro was not in the top-three most likely Nobel laureates, and so his victory comes as a surprise – albeit a much more mild one than last year’s left field selection of .

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