Kazuo Ishiguro

Author of Never Let Me Go

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About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954. In 1960, his family moved to England. He received a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from the University of Kent in 1978 and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 1980. He became a show more British citizen in 1982. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, received the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His other works include The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, and The Buried Giant. He was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1998. He received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also written several songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent and screenplays for both film and television. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: 石黑一雄, Kazuo Isiguro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kazuo Ishiguro (, К. Исигуро, カズオイシグロ, カズオ・イシグロ, Казуо Исигуро, Кадзуо Исигуро, קזואו אישיגורו

Works by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Never Let Me Go (2005) — Author — 22,950 copies

The Remains of the Day (1989) 16,429 copies

When We Were Orphans (2000) 5,607 copies

The Buried Giant (2015) 5,210 copies

Klara and the Sun (2021) 4,984 copies

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) 3,875 copies

The Unconsoled (1995) 3,567 copies

A Pale View of Hills (1982) 3,014 copies

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009) 2,256 copies

My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture (2000) 83 copies

Come Rain or Come Shine (2019) 79 copies

An Artist of the Floating World / The Remains of the Day (2000) 63 copies

The Remains of the Day (adapted ∙ Penguin Readers) (2000) 56 copies

The White Countess [2005 film] (2005) — Screenwriter — 53 copies

The Saddest Music in the World [2003 film] (2003) — Screenwriter — 40 copies

A Village After Dark (2001) 36 copies

The Remains of the Day [abridged audiobook] (1990) 26 copies

Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level Study Guide (2017) 17 copies

Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro (Literary Conversations Series) (2008) — Interviewee — 15 copies

A Family Supper (2018) 14 copies

The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent (2024) 10 copies

Crooner (2018) 7 copies

An Artist of the Floating World / The Remains of the Day / The Unconsoled (2003) 7 copies

Malvern Hills (2016) 5 copies

October, 1948 4 copies

Getting poisoned 3 copies

A Strange and Sometimes Sadness 3 copies

Waiting for J 2 copies

Summer After the War (1990) 2 copies

Early Japanese Stories 2 copies

Cellists 2 copies

Crooner | Nocturne (2020) 2 copies

Klara and the Sun | Never Let Me Go (2021) 1 copy

මතක මං අතර (2019) 1 copy

නිසල කඳු 1 copy

රැහැනක සමබරව (2010) 1 copy

The Remains of the Day | A Village After Dark (2019) 1 copy

Never Let Me Go von Kazuo Ishiguro.: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben… 1 copy

Klara and the Sun Hardcover 2 Mar 2021 1 copy

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1-Apr-2010) Paperback 1 copy

ISHIGURO KAZUO : PALE VIEW OF HILLS(FILM) (1999) 1 copy

The Gourmet 1 copy

Granta Japan with Waseda Bungaku 02: Best of Young Novelists (2015) 1 copy

The Unconsoled, Part 1 (1997) 1 copy

The Unconsoled, Part 3 (1997) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Contributor — 431 copies

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 348 copies

Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 (1993) — Contributor — 177 copies

The Remains of the Day [1993 film] (1993) — Original book — 175 copies

Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists (1983) — Contributor — 91 copies

Never Let Me Go [2010 film] (2010) — Original book — 84 copies

Granta 17: While Waiting for a War (1985) — Contributor — 81 copies

Granta 147: 40th Birthday Special (2019) — Contributor — 57 copies

Living [2022 film] (2023) — Writer — 20 copies

Granta. 1 : Ruoka : uuden kirjallisuuden areena (2013) 12 copies

Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981) — Contributor — 6 copies

Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller från Novellix : Steinbeck, Morrison m fl (2018) — Author — 2 copies

Never Let Me Go (Screenplay) (2011) — Introduction, some editions — 1 copy

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Other names: 石黒一雄
 カズオ・イシグロ
Birthdate: 1954-11-08
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Japan
Country (for map): Japan
England, UK
Birthplace: Nagasaki, Japan
Places of residence: London, England, UK
Education: University of Kent (BA | 1978 | English | Philosophy)
University of East Anglia (MA | 1980 | Creative Writing)
Occupations: novelist
screenwriter
Relationships: Ishiguro, Naomi (daughter)
Awards and honors: Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Booker prize (1989)
Royal Society of Literature (fellow|1989)
Granta's Best Of Young British Novelists (1993)
Order of the British Empire (officer|1995)
Premio Mantova (1998) (show all 9)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres (1998)
British Book Awards (Author of the Year shortlist|2006)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2017)
Agent: Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
Short biography: Sir Kazuo Ishiguro; (born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to the United Kingdom in 1960 when he was five.

Ishiguro received four Man Booker Prize nominations and won the award in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. He was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

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Discussions

The Buried Giant in Folio Society Devotees (November 2023)

2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro in Booker Prize (October 2021)

Never let me go in Book Fiend (June 2021)

Group Read, August 2018: An Artist of the Floating World in 1001 Books to read before you die (November 2018)

Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 in The Prizes (October 2017)

Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel in Book talk (October 2017)

BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (March 2015)

Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10 in Chertsey Bookclub (September 2010)

Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day in Author Theme Reads (November 2009)

Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills in Author Theme Reads (November 2009)

Group Read 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Part 1 in 1001 Books to read before you die (September 2009)

Reviews

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Story is really great, details less so. Sometimes obnoxiously vague, main character is supposed to be a smart man but with an obsession for his missing parents.
Main problem of this book is that the main character, Banks, is written as a ranging lunatic in the search for his parents. By writing him as a lunatic Ishiguro kind of minimises the obsession for me: he is only obsessed because of his lunacy. Unfortunate.
Writing style was something also just overdoing it a bit on the long-windedness. Yes, the main character is supposed to be well off etc, doesn’t mean he has to speak like he never knows where he is going to go with his sentences.
Anyway, idea of the story is a 4, execution a 2, making it a 3 overall.… (more)

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SophieDeBolle | 130 other reviews | May 22, 2024 |

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Strange mix of Arthurian legend, Greek myth, fairy tale, and British history. Read in one day, so it kept my attention, but I didn't love it. I'm still mulling the underlying meanings about memories and human conflicts.

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