New Knight

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New Knight

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heinäkuu 18, 2018, 9:37 am

Arise, Sir Kazuo


We doff our cap and bend the knee to the newly be-gonged Kazuo Ishiguro. As if the 1989 Man Booker winner's Nobel Prize wasn't enough, a knighthood has just been announced in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. The news led to some furrowed brows in various distant parts of the internet, with one worried poster asking: “If Kazuo Ishiguro is knighted, should he be addressed as Sir Kazuo or Sir Ishiguro? The point being that people of Japanese descent might place their first names after their last names.” Food for thought indeed. Meanwhile, Liz Calder, Bloomsbury co-founder, picked up a CBE, for services to literature. As editor and publisher she has overseen innumerable Man Booker winners, from Anita Brookner and Julian Barnes to Salman Rushdie and Michael Ondaatje

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