Kazuo Ishiguro
Autor/a de Never Let Me Go
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Obres de Kazuo Ishiguro
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro (Literary Conversations Series) (2008) — Interviewee — 15 exemplars
A Strange and Sometimes Sadness 3 exemplars
Getting poisoned 2 exemplars
Cellists 2 exemplars
Early Japanese Stories 2 exemplars
The Gourmet 1 exemplars
The Remains of the Days 1 exemplars
The view of pale hills 1 exemplars
1992 1 exemplars
2005 1 exemplars
October, 1948 1 exemplars
Waiting for J 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Col·laborador — 340 exemplars
Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller från Novellix : Steinbeck, Morrison m fl (2018) — Autor — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- 石黒一雄
カズオ・イシグロ - Data de naixement
- 1954-11-08
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Japó (naixement)
Regne Unit (naturalitzat) - Lloc de naixement
- Nagasaki, Japó
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- University of Kent (BA | 1978 | English | Philosophy)
University of East Anglia (MA | 1980 | Creative Writing) - Professions
- novelista
- Relacions
- Ishiguro, Naomi (daughter)
- Premis i honors
- Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres (1998)
Order of the British Empire ( [1995])
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Granta's Best Of Young British Novelists (1993)
Premio Mantova (1998)
British Book Awards Author of the Year Shortlist (2006) (mostra-les totes 8)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Premi Nobel de Literatura (2017) - Agent
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
- Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
The Buried Giant a Folio Society Devotees (novembre 28)
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro a Booker Prize (octubre 2021)
Never let me go a Book Fiend (juny 2021)
Group Read, August 2018: An Artist of the Floating World a 1001 Books to read before you die (novembre 2018)
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 a The Prizes (octubre 2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel a Book talk (octubre 2017)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO a 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (març 2015)
Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10 a Chertsey Bookclub (setembre 2010)
Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day a Author Theme Reads (novembre 2009)
Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills a Author Theme Reads (novembre 2009)
Group Read 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Part 1 a 1001 Books to read before you die (setembre 2009)
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Magic Realism (1)
Asia (4)
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Unread books (3)
Five star books (3)
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 47
- També de
- 12
- Membres
- 65,917
- Popularitat
- #210
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 2,353
- ISBN
- 902
- Llengües
- 39
- Preferit
- 377
- Quant a
- 3
- Pedres de toc
- 2,900