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About Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is known for fiction in English and for the wide recognition his work has received, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ishiguro writes across several forms, but he is best known for novels that probe memory, loss, and the fragile ties between people and the world around them. The Swedish Academy praised his work for its emotional force and for the way it reveals what lies beneath the feeling of connection.
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Books by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
1994
Never Let Me Go
2016
The Buried Giant
2016
Nocturnes
2009
Klara and the Sun
2022