British · b. 1954
Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist and short story writer born in Nagasaki, Japan, who moved to England with his family at age five. He studied at the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia, and published his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, in 1982. His best-known books are An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize in 1989, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant. Nocturnes, a cycle of five stories about music, appeared in 2009. His novels are told mostly by quiet first-person narrators who misunderstand their own lives, and they deal with memory, regret and self-deception. Several have been adapted into films, including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. Ishiguro also writes songs and screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 and was knighted in 2018.