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Kazuo Ishiguro


Japan (b.1954)

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1960. He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of East Anglia. He now lives in London.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Primio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize), and a book of stories, Nocturnes (2009). He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.
 

Awards: Nobel (2017), Booker (1989), Whitbread (1986)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
 
Novels
   A Pale View of Hills (1982)
   An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
   The Remains of the Day (1989)
   The Unconsoled (1995)
   When We Were Orphans (2000)
   Never Let Me Go (2005)
   The Buried Giant (2012)
   Klara and the Sun (2021)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Ghost (2015)
100 Stories to Read with the Lights On
edited by
Louise Welsh
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Granta 7 (1983)
The Best of Young British Novelists 1
(Granta, book 7)
edited by
Bill Burford

Awards
2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
1993 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
1989 Booker Prize : The Remains of the Day
1986 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : An Artist of the Floating World
1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations
2022 Prometheus Award (nominee) : Klara and the Sun
2022 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Klara and the Sun
2022 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : Klara and the Sun
2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Klara and the Sun
2022 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Klara and the Sun
2021 Booker Prize (longlist) : Klara and the Sun
2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Buried Giant
2016 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Buried Giant
2016 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (nominee) : The Buried Giant
2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
2006 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Never Let Me Go
2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Never Let Me Go
2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Never Let Me Go
2005 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Never Let Me Go
2000 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : When We Were Orphans
2000 Booker Prize (shortlist) : When We Were Orphans
1995 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : The Unconsoled
1986 Booker Prize (shortlist) : An Artist of the Floating World


Kazuo Ishiguro recommends
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Days Without End (2016)
(Days Without End, book 1)
Sebastian Barry
"A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years."
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A Division of the Light (2012)
Christopher Burns
"A strange, brilliant work."

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