Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (English: Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese: Ishiguro Kazuo/Ishiguro Kazuo, November 8, 1954 -) is a British novelist and playwright. He was born in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He moved to the UK with his parents in 1960 when he was five years old, and was officially naturalized in the UK in 1983. Awarded with the Rising Sun Medal. Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most famous writers in the English-speaking world today. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four times and won the prize in 1989 for his work "The End of the Day". His novel "Don't Lose, Don't Forget" published in 2005 was selected as "Top Ten Novels of 2005" and "One Hundred Excellent English Novels from 1923 to 2005" by Time Magazine. His latest novel "Clara and the Sun" will be published in 2021. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. In 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The award citation said that he "exposed the abyss beneath our illusion of connection with the world in novels of powerful emotional power." The following year, on the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, the then British monarch, he was made a knighthood.