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 mostra altro 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 meno
Opere di Kazuo Ishiguro
Getting poisoned 3 copie
A Strange and Sometimes Sadness 3 copie
Waiting for J 2 copie
Early Japanese Stories 2 copie
Cellists 2 copie
The Remains of the Days 1 copia
The view of pale hills 1 copia
නිසල කඳු 1 copia
The Buried Giant 1 copia
1992 1 copia
The Gourmet 1 copia
2005 1 copia
October, 1948 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 345 copie
Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller från Novellix : Steinbeck, Morrison m fl (2018) — Autore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- 石黒一雄
カズオ・イシグロ - Data di nascita
- 1954-11-08
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Japó (naixement)
Regne Unit (naturalitzat) - Nazione (per mappa)
- Japan
England, UK - Luogo di nascita
- Nagasaki, Japó
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Kent (BA | 1978 | English | Philosophy)
University of East Anglia (MA | 1980 | Creative Writing) - Attività lavorative
- novelista
- Relazioni
- Ishiguro, Naomi (daughter)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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 tutto 8)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Premi Nobel de Literatura (2017) - Agente
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
- Breve biografia
- 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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Discussioni
The Buried Giant in Folio Society Devotees (Novembre 2023)
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro in Booker Prize (Ottobre 2021)
Never let me go in Book Fiend (Giugno 2021)
Group Read, August 2018: An Artist of the Floating World in 1001 Books to read before you die (Novembre 2018)
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 in The Prizes (Ottobre 2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel in Book talk (Ottobre 2017)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Marzo 2015)
Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10 in Chertsey Bookclub (Settembre 2010)
Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day in Author Theme Reads (Novembre 2009)
Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills in Author Theme Reads (Novembre 2009)
Group Read 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Part 1 in 1001 Books to read before you die (Settembre 2009)
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- Opere
- 52
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 67,557
- Popolarità
- #198
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2,419
- ISBN
- 907
- Lingue
- 39
- Preferito da
- 377