Kazuo Ishiguro

KAZUO ISHIGURO’s (Author/Executive producer) novels have won him international acclaim and many honors, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the British decoration of OBE for Services to Literature and the French decoration Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into forty languages, and The Remains of the Day was adapted into an award-winning film.

Ishiguro’s novels include: A Pale View of Hills (1982 winner Winifred Holtby Prize); An Artist of the Floating World (1986 winner Whitbread Book of the Year Award, winner Premio Scanno, finalist for the Booker Prize); The Remains of the Day (1989, winner Booker Prize); The Unconsoled (1995, winner Cheltenham Prize); When We Were Orphans (2000, finalist for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, finalist for the Booker Prize, winner Premio Serono, winner Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, winner Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, finalist US National Book Critics Circle Award). Ishiguro’s latest book, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, was published May 2009.