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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, h…
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culture · Japanese-British writer and Nobel Laureate (born 1954) · novelist · writer · screenwriter · author · science fiction writer · lyricist · songwriter · also Kazuo Ishiguro, Ishiguro Kazuo, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Ishiguro
Born 8 November 1954 · Q272855
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2026· 6 entries
“I tend to be attracted to pre-war and postwar settings because I”
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“I grew up with a very strong image in my head of this other country, a very important other country to which I had a strong emotional tie … In England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan.”
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The Guardian: Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year
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The Guardian: A Pale View of Hills review – two-stranded adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro novel in the shadow of the A-bomb
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2025· 4 entries
Awarded Companion of Honour (2025).
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The Guardian: ‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb
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The Guardian: ‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
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The Guardian: ‘The definition of a classic’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go at 20
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Never Let Me Go review – fresh life found in Kazuo Ishiguro’s school dystopia
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Kazuo Ishiguro song lyrics collection to be published
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Living was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category
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2022· 2 entries
The Quint rated the claim “Kazuo Ishiguro died at age 67.” False.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Nobel prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro passes away” False.
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2019· 1 entry
Won Bodley Medal (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2018).
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2017· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2017).
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Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature with the motivation "in novels of great emotional force, [he] has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"
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Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (see below)
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Helmerich Award (2013).
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“s 2002 album In Love Again. Ishiguro first met Kent after he chose her recording of”
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2002· 2 entries
“with an intimate, confiding, first-person song, the meaning must not be self-sufficient on the page. It has to be oblique, sometimes you have to read between the lines”
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And Kent subsequently asked him to write for her
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1998).
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Published “Gain-of-Function Mutations of c- <i>kit</i> in Human Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors” in Science — cited 3,608 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
“If I wrote under a pseudonym and got somebody else to pose for my jacket photographs, I”
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1989· 5 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day (1989).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989).
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When discussing his Japanese heritage and its influence on his upbringing, he stated, "I'm not entirely like English people because I've been brought up by Japanese parents in a Japanese-speaking home
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Released his book The Remains of the Day, set in the large country house of an English lord in the period surrounding World War II
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For The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Costa Book Awards for An Artist of the Floating World (1986).
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Ishiguro has been married to Lorna MacDougall, a social worker, since 1986.
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1980· 1 entry
Studied at University of East Anglia (1979–1980).
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1979· 1 entry
Studied at University of Kent, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (1974–1979).
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1974· 1 entry
Began studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, graduating in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in English and philosophy
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1973· 2 entries
Studied at Woking County Grammar School for Boys (1966–1973).
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Took a gap year and traveled through the United States and Canada, writing a journal and sending demo tapes to record companies
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1960· 1 entry
Ishiguro moved with his family to Guildford, Surrey, as his father was invited for research at the National Institute of Oceanography (now the National Oceanography Centre)
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-11-08.
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