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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro , OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature . His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.

His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.

His novels An Artist of the Floating World , When We Were Orphans , and Never Let Me Go were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Books from Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

The Remains of the Day

Klara and the Sun

The Buried Giant

When We Were Orphans

An Artist of the Floating World

A Pale View of Hills

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

The Unconsoled

Come Rain or Come Shine