Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kazuo Ishiguro カズオ・イシグロ 石黒 一雄 OBE, FRSA, FRSL |
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Ishiguro in 2005
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| Born | Kazuo Ishiguro November 8, 1954 Nagasaki, Japan |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, columnist, songwriter |
| Alma mater |
University of Kent at Canterbury University of East Anglia |
| Period | 1981–present |
| Genre | Drama, historical fiction, science fiction, genre fiction |
| Notable works |
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) The Remains of the Day (1989) When We Were Orphans (2000) Never Let Me Go (2005) |
| Notable awards |
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1982 A Pale View of Hills Whitbread Prize 1986 An Artist of the Floating World Booker Prize 1989 The Remains of the Day OBE 1995 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1998 |
| Spouse | Lorna MacDougall (m. 1986) |
| Children | Naomi Ishiguro |
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄; born 8 November 1954) is a 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.
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki on 8 November 1954, the son of Shizuo Ishiguro, a physical oceanographer, and his wife Shizuko. In 1960 his family, including his two sisters, moved to Guildford, Surrey, so that his father could begin research at the National Institute of Oceanography. He attended Stoughton Primary School and then Woking County Grammar School in Surrey. After finishing school, he took a gap year and travelled through the United States and Canada, while writing a journal and sending demo tapes to record companies.
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