Kazuo Ishiguro, author portrait
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Kazuo Ishiguro

KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His books have been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were both made into acclaimed films. He received a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. His most recent novel, Klara and the Sun was a number one Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback.
Ishiguro also works occasionally as a screenwriter. His screenplay for the 2022 film Living received Academy Award (Oscar) and BAFTA nominations. Cinema adaptations of Klara and the Sun and A Pale View of Hills are due for release in 2025.
Never Let Me Go
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
Never Let Me Go
Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
The Buried Giant
An Artist of the Floating World
Nocturnes
When We Were Orphans
The Unconsoled
The Remains of the Day
A Pale View of Hills
An Artist of the Floating World

Books

Never Let Me Go
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
Never Let Me Go
Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
The Buried Giant
An Artist of the Floating World
Nocturnes
When We Were Orphans
The Unconsoled
The Remains of the Day
A Pale View of Hills
An Artist of the Floating World

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