British author Kazuo Ishiguro holds a press conference in London on October 5, 2017 after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Kazuo Ishiguro, the 62-year-old British writer of Japanese told British media that winning the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature today was a "magnificent honour" and "flabbergastingly flattering". / AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL        (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)