Born on November 8, 1954, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (Japanese: , Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo, is a British author, screenwriter, musician, and writer of short stories. He was given the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him one of the most critically praised English-language writers of modern fiction. Author Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" was how the Swedish Academy put it in its citation.
When Ishiguro was five, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1960. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan. His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, had a mournful tone and explored Japanese identity. After that, he studied other genres, such as science fiction and historical fiction.
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