Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro
石黒 一雄
Ishiguro in 2017
Born (1954-11-08) 8 November 1954 (age 69)
Citizenship
  • Japan (until 1983)
  • United Kingdom (since 1983)
Education
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • screenwriter
  • columnist
  • songwriter
Years active1981–present
Spouse
Lorna MacDougall
(m. 1986)
ChildrenNaomi Ishiguro
Awards
Writing career
Genre
Notable works
Japanese name
Kanji石黒 一雄
Kanaいしぐろ かずお
Transcriptions
RomanizationIshiguro Kazuo

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo, /kæˈz. ˌɪʃɪˈɡur, ˈkæzu./; 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.

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Release". Nobel Prize. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Salman Rushdie: rereading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro". the Guardian. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2021.

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