Which Nobel Prize-Winning author wrote the novel The Remains of the Day?

Concept

Literary general knowledge questions of this kind ask you to link three facts about one writer: the specific novel named in the stem, the author who wrote it, and that author's major award. A reliable way to answer is to anchor on the single most famous work and recall who produced it, then confirm the award status fits the wording of the question.

Application

1. The novel named in the stem is The Remains of the Day (1989), the story of an English butler, Stevens, reflecting on his years of service.

2. This novel was written by Kazuo Ishiguro and won the Booker Prize in 1989.

3. Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, which satisfies the "Nobel Prize-winning author" condition in the question.

Contrast

• Samuel Beckett (Nobel 1969) is known for the play Waiting for Godot, not this novel.

• Orhan Pamuk (Nobel 2006) is the Turkish author of My Name Is Red and Snow.

• V. S. Naipaul (Nobel 2001) is known for A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River.

All four are Nobel laureates, so the deciding fact is which one actually authored The Remains of the Day: Kazuo Ishiguro.