Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of seven novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Primio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize), and The Buried Giant (2015), as well as a book of stories, Nocturnes (2009).

He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998. In 2017, he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature