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Kazuo Ishiguro biography

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1960. Ishiguro studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent and later completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1980.

Ishiguro’s debut novel, A Pale View of Hills, was published in 1982. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World (1986), won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1989, Ishiguro published The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize and was later adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film.

His subsequent novels include The Unconsoled (1995), which won the Cheltenham Prize, When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a feature film. Ishiguro’s novel The Buried Giant was published in 2015. In 2021, he released Klara and the Sun.

Ishiguro has also written short stories and screenplays, including the screenplay for the 2003 film The Saddest Music in the World. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 for his contributions to the field.

In 2018, Ishiguro was knighted for services to literature.