Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954. In 1960, his family moved to England. He received a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from the University of Kent in 1978 and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 1980. He became a mehr anzeigen British citizen in 1982. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, received the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His other works include The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, and The Buried Giant. He was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1998. He received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also written several songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent and screenplays for both film and television. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Wissenswertes
- Andere Namen
- 石黒一雄
カズオ・イシグロ - Geburtstag
- 1954-11-08
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Japan (Geburt)
Grossbritannien (Einbürgerung) - Land (für Karte)
- Japan
England, UK - Geburtsort
- Nagasaki, Japan
- Wohnorte
- London, England, Grossbritannien
- Ausbildung
- University of Kent (BA 1978 English Philosophy)
University of East Anglia (MA 1980 Creative Writing) - Berufe
- Novellist
- Beziehungen
- Ishiguro, Naomi (Tochter)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Nobelpreis (Literatur, 2017)
British Book Awards Author of the Year Shortlist (2006)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres (1998)
Premio Mantova (1998)
Order of the British Empire (1995)
Granta's Best Of Young British Novelists (1993) (Zeige alle 8)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983) - Agent
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers Coleridge & White)
- Kurzbiographie
- Sir Kazuo Ishiguro; (born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to the United Kingdom in 1960 when he was five.
Ishiguro received four Man Booker Prize nominations and won the award in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. He was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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The Buried Giant in Folio Society Devotees (November 2023)
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro in Booker Prize (Oktober 2021)
Never let me go in Book Fiend (Juni 2021)
Group Read, August 2018: An Artist of the Floating World in 1001 Books to read before you die (November 2018)
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 in The Prizes (Oktober 2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel in Book talk (Oktober 2017)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (März 2015)
Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10 in Chertsey Bookclub (September 2010)
Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day in Author Theme Reads (November 2009)
Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills in Author Theme Reads (November 2009)
Group Read 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Part 1 in 1001 Books to read before you die (September 2009)
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The novel is considered as both historical fiction and global literature (Weltliteratur). It is considered historical fiction on account of its basis in a past that predates the author's own experiences, and it draws from historical facts. It is also considered global literature on account of its broad international market and its theme of how the world today is interconnected. (Wikipedia)… (mehr)