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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo, / k æ ˈ z uː. oʊ ˌ ɪ ʃ ɪ ˈ ɡ u r oʊ, ˈ k æ z u. oʊ /; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" Skip to content
Mar 1, 2024 · Kazuo Ishiguro – Booker Prize winner, Nobel Prize winner, one of the most celebrated British novelists of the last 40 years – is the author of the Booker Prizes’ Monthly Spotlight book for March 2024, The Remains of the Day, which won the Prize in 1989 against stiff competition.
Jun 14, 2024 · Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954, Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese-born British novelist known for his lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism. In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his works that “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win.
Facts. © Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud. Kazuo Ishiguro. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. Born: 8 November 1954, Nagasaki, Japan. Prize motivation: “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. Prize share: 1/1.
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960.
