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
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
Biography source:
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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
