Kazuo Ishiguro
5 books
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and An Artist of the Floating World. His works often explore themes of memory, time, and self-discovery.
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and moved to England with his family at the age of five. He studied English and philosophy at the University of Kent and later earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills, was published in 1982 and was followed by An Artist of the Floating World in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, won the 1989 Booker Prize and was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1993. His fourth novel, Never Let Me Go, was published in 2005 and was adapted into a film in 2010.
Ishiguro has also written several screenplays, including The White Countess (2005) and The Saddest Music in the World (2003). He has won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. He is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
