Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in English. He has received four Man Booker Prize nominations and won the award in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. Time named Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
Kazuo Ishiguro
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カズオ・イシグロ, Казуо Ишигуро, קאזואו אישיגורו, and 32 others
Kadzuo Išiguro, Kazua İşiguro, Ishiguro, Khasuo Ichinguro, 이시구로 가즈오, Kazuo Ishiguro, كازوو إيشيغيرو, Kadzuo Isiguro, Kazu Ishijuru, كازوئو ايشيگورو, Ишигуро, იშიგურო კაძუო, カズオイシグロ, Ишигура, 石黑一雄, Кадзуо Ишигуро, קזואו אישיגורו, カズオ イシグロ, 石黒一雄, ايشيگورو، كازوئو،, Кадзуо Исигуро, イシグロカズオ, Кадзуо Ісіґуро, 石黒 一雄, Kashuo Ishiguro, Καζούο Ισιγκούρο, کازو ایشیگورو, Kāzūʼū Īshīgūrū, কাজুও ইশিগুরো, Kazuo İşiguro, كازو إيشيجورو،, Kazuo Ishiguru - Born:
- Nov. 8, 1954
