Kazuo Ishiguro
Author of Never Let Me Go
About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954. In 1960, his family moved to England. He received a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from the University of Kent in 1978 and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 1980. He became a show more British citizen in 1982. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, received the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His other works include The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, and The Buried Giant. He was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1998. He received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also written several songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent and screenplays for both film and television. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Kazuo Ishiguro
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture (2017) 85 copies, 3 reviews
October, 1948 3 copies
Getting Poisoned 3 copies
A Strange and Sometimes Sadness 3 copies
Waiting for J 2 copies
Early Japanese Stories 2 copies
Cellists 2 copies
Pogrebennyy velikan 1 copy
The Gourmet 1 copy
Tàn Ngày Để Lại 1 copy
Dreggjar dagsins 1 copy
Never Let Me Go von Kazuo Ishiguro.: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben… (2019) 1 copy
නිසල කඳු 1 copy
The Remains of the Day 1 copy
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 363 copies, 6 reviews
Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller från Novellix : Steinbeck, Morrison m fl (2018) — Author — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- 石黒一雄
カズオ・イシグロ - Birthdate
- 1954-11-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
Japan - Country (for map)
- UK
- Birthplace
- Nagasaki, Japan
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Kent (BA | 1978 | English | Philosophy)
University of East Anglia (MA | 1980 | Creative Writing) - Occupations
- novelist
screenwriter - Relationships
- Ishiguro, Naomi (daughter)
- Awards and honors
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Booker prize (1989)
Royal Society of Literature (fellow|1989)
Granta's Best Of Young British Novelists (1993)
Order of the British Empire (officer|1995)
Premio Mantova (1998) (show all 9)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres (1998)
British Book Awards (Author of the Year shortlist|2006)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2017) - Agent
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
- Short biography
- Sir Kazuo Ishiguro; (born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to the United Kingdom in 1960 when he was five.
Ishiguro received four Man Booker Prize nominations and won the award in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. He was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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Discussions
The Buried Giant in Folio Society Devotees (November 2023)
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro in Booker Prize (October 2021)
Never let me go in Book Fiend (June 2021)
Group Read, August 2018: An Artist of the Floating World in 1001 Books to read before you die (November 2018)
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 in The Prizes (October 2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel in Book talk (October 2017)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (March 2015)
Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10 in Chertsey Bookclub (September 2010)
Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day in Author Theme Reads (November 2009)
Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills in Author Theme Reads (November 2009)
Group Read 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Part 1 in 1001 Books to read before you die (September 2009)
Reviews
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A magnificently written book. Layers and layers of meaning!
Wow. Gutted by the ending. Wrenched by the themes. Awed by Ishiguro’s skill in letting us understand so much more than Klara does (though I did have to look up what an oblong was). I might reread soon….
Beautifully rendered life in retrospect as the narrator faces certsin truths about himself.
Japanese isolationism written in the context of English sentimentality
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Statistics
- Works
- 51
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 71,720
- Popularity
- #177
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 2,483
- ISBNs
- 929
- Languages
- 41
- Favorited
- 379
