Kazuo Ishiguro

British · b. 1954

Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1989 Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day." The British author—born in Japan, raised in England—writes about memory, loss, and the stories people tell themselves with devastating restraint. "Never Let Me Go" reimagined science fiction's possibilities; "Klara and the Sun" examined artificial consciousness. Ishiguro's prose achieves emotional power through what it withholds.

Books by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Klara and the Sun (2021)
• Never Let Me Go (2005)
• When We Were Orphans (2000)
• An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
• A Pale View of Hills (1982)
• The Buried Giant (2015)
• The Remains of the Day (1989)
• The Unconsoled (1995)

Recognition

• Costa Book Awards (1986)
• Booker Prize (1989)
• Nobel Prize in Literature (2017)