Kazuo Ishiguro

Novelist

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-English author best known for his award-winning novel The Remains of the Day (1989). He published his first novel A Pale View of the Hills in 1982 after studying at the University of Kent, Canterbury and the University of East Anglia. The novel went on to win that year's Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. His other novels include Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009), Never Let Me Go (2005), When We Were Orphans (2000), and The Unconsoled (1995), which was awarded the Cheltenham Prize in 1995. Ishiguro has received several other awards for his writing, including a Whitbread Book of the Year award for An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and the 1989 Booker Prize for Fiction for The Remains of the Day (1989), which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. He has also received four Man Booker Prize nominations.

Ishiguro has also written original screenplays, including The White Countess (2005), A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (1984) and The Gourmet (1986). He was awarded an OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.