Quick Facts About Kazuo Ishiguro
- Born
- November 8, 1954
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Novelist
- Notable works
- The Remains of the Day
- Known for
- When We Were Orphans, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, An Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills
- Spouse
- Lorna MacDougall
About Kazuo Ishiguro
He is considered one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English and has received several major literary prizes. The Swedish Academy praised his novels for their great emotional force and for revealing the hidden gaps beneath our sense of connection with the world.
Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Literature
Booker Prize
Order of the Rising Sun
Knight Bachelor
Costa Book Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Bodley Medal
Helmerich Award
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Companion of Honour
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
