Question

Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for which discipline?
1. Chemistry
2. Physics
3. Mathematics
4. Literature

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Literature

The correct answer is Literature.

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro.
• "Who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
• Ishiguro, author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, was praised by the Swedish Academy for novels.
• These novels “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world” and were driven by a “great emotional force”.

• Nobel Prize winner 2020:
  • Physics - Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
  • Chemistry - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna.
  • Medicine - Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice.
  • Peace - World Food Programme (WFP).
  • Economics - Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson.