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Biography
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist. Born in Nagasaki, his family moved to England when he was five. He won the Man Booker Prize in 1989 for 'The Remains of the Day'. In 2017 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Awards & recognition
- Companion of Honour · 2025
- Bodley Medal · 2019
- Knight Bachelor · 2018
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 2017
- Helmerich Award · 2013
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- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · 1998
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1995
- Booker Prize · 1989
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 1989
- Costa Book Awards · 1986
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Order of the Rising Sun
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 2023 · nominated
- Arthur C. Clarke Award · 2022 · nominated
- Locus Award — Best Science Fiction Novel · 2022 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2021 · nominated
- Locus Award — Best Fantasy Novel · 2016 · nominated
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award — Adult Literature · 2016 · nominated
- World Fantasy Award — Best Novel · 2016 · nominated
- Arthur C. Clarke Award · 2006 · nominated
- Locus Award — Best Science Fiction Novel · 2006 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2005 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2000 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 1986 · nominated
Filmography7 titles
Ex Machina
2014Thanks
2014Thanks
The Remains of the Day
1993Novel
1993Novel
Living
2022Executive Producer, Writer
2022Executive Producer, Writer
Never Let Me Go
2010Executive Producer, Novel
2010Executive Producer, Novel
The Saddest Music in the World
2003Screenplay
2003Screenplay
The White Countess
2005Writer
2005Writer
An Artist of the Floating World
2019Novel
2019Novel