Kazuo Ishiguro

Who is this?

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo; ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their mournful tone. He has since explored themes more typically associated with science fiction and historical fiction, while continuing a focus on the outsider's perspective, the search for an unattainable truth, and the sense of recent history as a spider's web in which humans vainly struggle. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize four times, winning in 1989 for The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. Salman Rushdie praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he "turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis". Time named Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2022 film Living.

Career

1. 1954
   Born
2. 1986
   Won Costa Book Awards
3. 1989
   Won Booker Prize
4. 1995
   Won Officer of the Order of the British Empire
5. 2013
   Won Helmerich Award
6. Member of Royal Society of Literature
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Won Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
9. Notable work: An Artist of the Floating World
10. Notable work: The Remains of the Day
11. Notable work: When We Were Orphans
12. Notable work: Never Let Me Go
13. Notable work: Klara and the Sun

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Nagasaki
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, Japan
• •Known as: novelist, writer, screenwriter, author
• •Spouse: Lorna MacDougall