“When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.”

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.