British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is a 2017 Nobel laureate in literature. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and some of them have been filmed.
Biography
Ishiguro is Japanese and moved to the UK at the age of five. Born in the Japanese city of Nagasaki in 1954. His mother survived the explosion of an atomic bomb. His father, an oceanographer by profession, was offered research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and he moved the family to England in 1959. They settled near Guildford, Surrey. Ishiguro always said that his parents did not have the immigrant mentality because they always thought they would return home. He was 15 years old when his parents made the final decision to stay in the UK.
Before entering the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he studied English and philosophy, Kazuo traveled throughout the United States and Canada. He did not even think about a writing career, his dream at that time was to become a professional musician, but this did not lead to success. After graduating from the University of Kent, Ishiguro continued his studies and received a degree from the University of East Anglia, where he studied writing in Malcolm Bradbury's course.
Writing career
His career as a writer began in 1981. And just two years later, shortly after the publication of the first novel, Hills in the Haze, which tells about the destruction of Nagasaki and the rebuilding of the city after the atomic bombing, Kazuo Ishiguro was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best Young British Writers.
Then the writer wrote the novel The Artist of a Shaky World (1986), which tells the story of the former artist Masuji Ono and explores the attitude of the Japanese towards World War II. The work won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was listed for the Booker Prize. Ishiguro's third novel, Remains of the Day (1989), tells the story of an elderly English butler and his memories of life during the war. He was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction and was subsequently filmed starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins. The following novels published by Ishiguro:
- "Inconsolable";
- “When We Were Orphans”;
- "Not letting go of me";
- "The Buried Giant".
In 2009, his first collection of short stories, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Twilight, was published, which was nominated for the 2010 James Tite Award.
The highest honor awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro is the Nobel Prize. It was awarded to the writer in 2017. The Swedish Academy explained that Ishiguro was awarded the award for the fact that the author's novels have "extraordinary emotional power and reveal the chasm under the illusory sense of connection with the world."
A few words about personal life
Kazuo Ishiguro is a respectable family man. He and his wife Lorna McDougall legalized their relationship in 1986. In the marriage, a daughter was born, who was named Naomi. The Ishiguro family now lives in London.
