Fill in the Blanks Fill in the blanksOnline version Exercise for your students to do at home. by Angelo Cappetta 1 driven surprise abyss tipped named doubted wondering unprepared The British author Kazuo Ishiguro said he was both honoured and " taken completely by " after he was this year ? s winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature , even initially if the announcement was a case of " fake news " . Ishiguro , author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go , was praised by the Swedish Academy for novels which " uncovered the beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world " and were by a " great emotional force " . Despite being among those for the prize , whose previous winners include Seamus Heaney , Toni Morrison , Doris Lessing and Pablo Neruda , Ishiguro told the Guardian he had been completely for the announcement and had even at first if it was true .