Kazuo Ishiguro
Autor(a) de Never Let Me Go
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Obras de Kazuo Ishiguro
Getting poisoned 3 cópias
October, 1948 3 cópias
A Strange and Sometimes Sadness 3 cópias
Early Japanese Stories 2 cópias
Waiting for J 2 cópias
Cellists 2 cópias
The Gourmet 1 exemplar(es)
Klara and the Sun Hardcover 2 Mar 2021 1 exemplar(es)
Never Let Me Go von Kazuo Ishiguro.: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben… 1 exemplar(es)
නිසල කඳු 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuinte — 345 cópias
Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller från Novellix : Steinbeck, Morrison m fl (2018) — Autor — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- 石黒一雄
カズオ・イシグロ - Data de nascimento
- 1954-11-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Japó (naixement)
Regne Unit (naturalitzat) - País (para mapa)
- Japan
England, UK - Local de nascimento
- Nagasaki, Japó
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Kent (BA | 1978 | English | Philosophy)
University of East Anglia (MA | 1980 | Creative Writing) - Ocupação
- novelista
- Relacionamentos
- Ishiguro, Naomi (daughter)
- Premiações
- 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) (mostrar todas 8)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Premi Nobel de Literatura (2017) - Agente
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
- Pequena 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.
Membros
Discussions
The Buried Giant em Folio Society Devotees (Novembro 2023)
2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro em Booker Prize (Outubro 2021)
Never let me go em Book Fiend (Junho 2021)
Group Read, August 2018: An Artist of the Floating World em 1001 Books to read before you die (Novembro 2018)
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 em The Prizes (Outubro 2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel em Book talk (Outubro 2017)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO em 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Março 2015)
Never Let Me Go - discussed 15/09/10 em Chertsey Bookclub (Setembro 2010)
Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day em Author Theme Reads (Novembro 2009)
Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills em Author Theme Reads (Novembro 2009)
Group Read 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Part 1 em 1001 Books to read before you die (Setembro 2009)
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