Five quick facts about Kazuo Ishiguro - winner of Nobel Literature Prize 2017

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day", won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said. Here are five quick facts about the winner.

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel 'The Remains of the Day', won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said. The 62-year-old, 'in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sens 

Born in Nagasaki on 8 November 1954, he moved to Britain with his family when he was five years old, only returning to visit Japan as an adult. Both his first novel 'A Pale View of Hills' from 1982 and the subsequent one, 'An Artist of the Floating World' from 1986, takes place in Nagasaki a few years after World War II. (Photo | AFP)

Ishiguro used to do social work. It was during one such campaign that he met his wife Lorna MacDougall, who is also a social worker. His experiences of social care are believed to have influenced the writing of 'Never Let Me Go.' (Photo | AP)

Apart from the seven novels, Kazuo Ishiguro has written four screenplays and five works of short fiction. Two of his novels and a screenplay have been made into movies so far. (Photo | AP)

Kazuo Ishiguro has also written lyrics for jazz songs. The writer is a close friend of jazz singer Stacey Kent, and have written lyrics for many of her songs. (Photo | AP)