Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄, born 8 November 1954, is the Nobel Prize of 2017 in Literature Winning British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. 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.

Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

His seventh novel, The Buried Giant, was published on 3 March 2015 in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

Awards

• 1982: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for A Pale View of Hills
• 1983: Published in the Granta Best Young British Novelists issue
• 1986: Whitbread Prize for An Artist of the Floating World
• 1989: Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
• 1993: Published in the Granta Best Young British Novelists issue
• 1995: OBE
• 1998: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2005: Time magazine names Never Let Me Go on its list of the 100 greatest English language novels since the magazine formed in 1923.
• 2008: The Times named Ishiguro among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
• 2017: Nobel Prize in Literature