Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist born on 8 November 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, who moved to Britain in 1960. Educated at the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia's creative writing programme, he achieved international acclaim with The Remains of the Day (1989), which won the Booker Prize and was adapted into a celebrated 1993 film. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 for novels 'revealing the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,' and was knighted in 2018. His notable novels include A Pale View of Hills (1982), An Artist of the Floating World (1986), Never Let Me Go (2005), The Buried Giant (2015), and Klara and the Sun (2021). Ishiguro's work is characterised by unreliable narrators, themes of memory and self-deception, and an understated prose style that conceals profound emotional undercurrents. He has also co-written lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent and penned the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for Living (2022).