Ishiguro praises role of literature in divided world: Nobel lecture

Japan-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro warned of the dangers of an increasingly divided world and called on literature to help "break down barriers" during his Nobel lecture Thursday at the Swedish Academy.Referencing "enormous inequalities" of wealth and opportunity, increasing racism and the proliferation of "tribal nationalisms," Ishiguro admitted that "the unstoppable advance of liberal-humanist values I'd taken for granted since childhood may have been an illusion."Nonetheless, he pointed to the 20th century's rebukes of totalitarianism and other forms of oppression, and asserted w…READ FULL ARTICLE