Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL
石黒 一雄
Ishiguro in 2017
Born	(1954-11-08) 8 November 1954 (age 70) Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Citizenship	Japan (until 1983) United Kingdom (since 1983)
Education	University of Kent (BA) University of East Anglia (MA)
Occupations	Novelist short story writer screenwriter columnist songwriter
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Lorna MacDougall ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	Naomi Ishiguro
Awards	Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1982 A Pale View of Hills Whitbread Prize 1985 An Artist of the Floating World Booker Prize 1989 The Remains of the Day Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
Writing career
Genre	Drama Historical fiction Science fiction Genre fiction
Notable works	An Artist of the Floating World The Remains of the Day When We Were Orphans Never Let Me Go Klara and the Sun
Japanese name
Kanji	石黒 一雄
Kana	いしぐろ かずお
Transcriptions Romanization Ishiguro Kazuo

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo, /kæˈzuː.oʊ ˌɪʃɪˈɡuroʊ, ˈkæzu.oʊ/; 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 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".^[1]

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 thereafter explored other genres, including science fiction and historical fiction.

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".^[2]

Time named Ishiguro's science fiction novel 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.