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{{Short description|British writer and Nobel Laureate (born 1954)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
| name               = Kazuo Ishiguro
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100|CH|OBE|FRSA|FRSL}}
| image              = MKr377543 Kazuo Ishiguro (A Pale View of Hills, Cannes 2025).jpg
| alt                = Potratits of Kazuo Ishiguro at the 2025 Cannes Festival
| caption            = Ishiguro in 2025
| native_name        = 石黒 一雄
| native_name_lang   = ja
| birth_name         = <!-- only use if different from name -->
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1954|11|08}}
| birth_place        = [[Nagasaki]], [[Nagasaki Prefecture]], Japan
| citizenship        = {{ubl|Japan (until 1983)|United Kingdom (since 1983)}}
| education          = {{ubl|[[University of Kent]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[University of East Anglia]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|Novelist|short story writer|screenwriter|columnist|songwriter}}
| years_active       = 1981–present
| spouse             = {{marriage|Lorna MacDougall|1986}}
| children           = [[Naomi Ishiguro]]
| awards             = {{ubl|
  {{Awards
   | award   = [[Winifred Holtby]] Memorial Prize
   | year    = 1982
   | title   = [[A Pale View of Hills]]
  }}
| {{Awards
   | award   = [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]]
   | year    = 1985
   | title   = An Artist of the Floating World
  }}
| {{Awards
   | award   = [[Booker Prize]]
   | year    = 1989
   | title   = The Remains of the Day
  }}
| {{Awards
   | award   = [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]
   | year    = 2017
  }}
 }}
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| genre = {{hlist|Drama|Historical fiction|Science fiction|[[Genre fiction]]}}
| notableworks = {{ubl|''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]''|''[[The Remains of the Day]]''|''[[When We Were Orphans]]''|''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]''|''[[Klara and the Sun]]''}}
}}
{{Infobox Chinese/Japanese
| kanji             = 石黒 一雄
| kana              = いしぐろ かずお
| romaji            = ''Ishiguro Kazuo''
}}
}}

{{nihongo|'''Sir Kazuo Ishiguro''' |石黒 一雄|Ishiguro Kazuo|lead=yes|4={{IPAc-en|k|æ|ˈ|z|uː|.|oʊ|_|ˌ|ɪ|ʃ|ɪ|ˈ|ɡ|u|r|oʊ|,_|ˈ|k|æ|z|u|.|oʊ}}; born 8 November 1954}} is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the [[2017 Nobel Prize in Literature]]. In its citation, the [[Swedish Academy]] described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".<ref name="Nobel">{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Release |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.html |access-date=5 October 2017 |publisher=Nobel Prize}}</ref>

Ishiguro was born in [[Nagasaki]], Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. His first two novels, ''[[A Pale View of Hills]]'' and ''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]'', were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their mournful tone. He thereafter explored other genres, including [[science fiction]] and [[historical fiction]].

He has been nominated for the [[Booker Prize]] four times, winning in 1989 for ''[[The Remains of the Day]]'', which was adapted into a [[The Remains of the Day (film)|film of the same name]] in 1993. [[Salman Rushdie]] praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he "turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-08-17|title=Salman Rushdie: rereading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/17/rereading-remains-day-salman-rushdie|access-date=2021-06-23|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named Ishiguro's science fiction novel ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. He was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]] for the 2022 film ''[[Living (2022 film)|Living]]''.

== Early life and education ==
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954,<ref name="mesher1998">{{Cite book|last=Mesher|first=D.|title=Dictionary of Literary Biography|title-link=Dictionary of Literary Biography|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|year=1998|isbn=0-7876-1849-7|editor-last1=Moseley|editor-first1=Merritt|series=2d series|pages=[[iarchive:britishnovelists194mose/page/145/mode/1up|145–153]]|oclc=39085322}}</ref> the son of [[Shizuo Ishiguro]], a [[physical oceanography|physical oceanographer]], and his wife, Shizuko.<ref name="bio">{{cite book |title=Kazuo Ishiguro |first=Barry |last=Lewis |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2000}}</ref> In 1960,<ref name="mesher1998" /> Ishiguro moved with his family to [[Guildford]], [[Surrey]], as his father was invited for research at the National Institute of Oceanography (now the [[National Oceanography Centre, Southampton|National Oceanography Centre]]).<ref name="bio" /><ref name="BritCouncil">{{Cite web |title=Kazuo Ishiguro |url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/kazuo-ishiguro |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302152935/http://literature.britishcouncil.org/kazuo-ishiguro |archive-date=2 March 2012 |access-date=15 February 2012 |website=British Council}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.sciencemuseum.org.uk/stories/2016/11/4/modelling-the-oceans|title=Modelling the oceans|website=Science Museum Group|access-date=7 October 2017}}</ref> He did not return to visit Japan until 1989, nearly 30 years later, when he was a participant in the [[Japan Foundation]] Short-Term Visitors' Programme.

In an interview with [[Kenzaburō Ōe]], Ishiguro stated that the Japanese settings of his first two novels were imaginary: "I grew up with a very strong image in my head of this other country, a very important other country to which I had a strong emotional tie … In England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan."<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last=Oe|first=Kenzaburo|year=1991|title=The Novelist in Today's World: A Conversation|journal=[[boundary 2]]|volume=18|issue=3|page=110}}</ref>

Ishiguro, who has been described as a [[British Asian]] author,<ref>{{cite book|author=Tamara S. Wagner|editor1=Neil Murphy|editor2=Wai-Chew Sim|title=British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary|date=2008|publisher=[[Cambria Press]]|chapter=Gorged-out Cadavers of Hills|isbn=978-1604975413|page=165|quote=British Asian authors like [[Timothy Mo]] or Kazuo Ishiguro.}}</ref> explained in a [[BBC]] interview how growing up in a [[Japanese in the United Kingdom|Japanese family in the UK]] was crucial to his writing, enabling him to see things from a different perspective from that of many of his English peers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41517882|title=Kazuo Ishiguro keeps calm amid Nobel Prize frenzy|date=6 October 2017|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

He attended Stoughton Primary School and then [[List of schools in Surrey|Woking County Grammar School]] in [[Surrey]].<ref name="bio" /> Ishiguro sang solos as a [[choirboy]] with his church and school choirs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gross |first=Terry |author-link=Terry Gross |date=17 March 2021 |title=Kazuo Ishiguro Draws On His Songwriting Past To Write Novels About The Future |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/978138547 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=[[Fresh Air]] |publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref> He also enjoyed music as a teenager, listening to the likes of [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Joni Mitchell]], and particularly [[Bob Dylan]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harvey |first=Giles |date=23 February 2021 |title=Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/magazine/kazuo-ishiguro-klara.html |access-date=18 March 2021}}</ref> Ishiguro began learning guitar and writing songs, initially aiming to become a professional songwriter.<ref name="achievement" /><ref name="Kellaway">{{Cite web|date=2015-03-15|first=Kate|last=Kellaway|author-link=Kate Kellaway|title=Interview {{!}} Kazuo Ishiguro: I used to see myself as a musician. But really, I'm one of those people with corduroy jackets and elbow patches|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/15/kazuo-ishiguro-i-used-to-see-myself-as-a-musician|access-date=2021-03-17|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> He says that "for me there's always been big overlap between fiction and song. My style as a novelist comes substantially from what I learnt writing songs. The intimate, first-person quality of a singer performing to an audience, for instance, carried over for me into novels. As did the need to approach meaning subtly, sometimes by nudging it into the spaces between the lines."<ref name=":ByTheBook">{{cite news| author=Kazuo Ishiguro| date=March 5, 2015| title=Kazuo Ishiguro: By the Book| work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> After finishing school in 1973,<ref name="NWroe" /> he took a [[gap year]] and traveled through the United States and Canada, writing a journal and sending [[demo tape]]s to record companies. He also worked as a grouse beater, a practice of [[driven grouse shooting]], at [[Balmoral Castle]].<ref name="bio" /><ref name="achievement">{{cite web|title= Sir Kazuo Ishiguro Biography and Interview |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/#interview}}</ref> Ishiguro later reflected on his ephemeral songwriting career, saying, "I used to see myself as some sort of musician type but there came a point when I thought: actually, this isn't me at all. I'm much less glamorous. I'm one of these people with corduroy jackets with elbow patches. It was a real comedown."<ref name="Kellaway" />

In 1974, he began studies at the [[University of Kent|University of Kent at Canterbury]], graduating in 1978 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] (honours) in [[English studies|English]] and [[philosophy]].<ref name="bio" /> After spending a year writing fiction, he resumed his studies at the [[University of East Anglia]] where he studied with [[Malcolm Bradbury]] and [[Angela Carter]] on the [[UEA Creative Writing Course]], gaining the degree of [[Master of Arts]] in 1980.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="BritCouncil" /> His thesis became his first novel, ''[[A Pale View of Hills]]'', published in 1982.<ref name="bbc2017">{{cite news |title=Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel Literature Prize is 'a magnificent honour' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41513246 |access-date=5 October 2017 |work=BBC News |date=5 October 2017}}</ref>

He gained [[British nationality law|British citizenship]] in 1983.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/19/fiction.kazuoishiguro|title=Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro|access-date=7 October 2017|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=19 February 2005|last1=Wroe|first1=Nicholas}}</ref>

== Career==
=== 1982–1994: Literary beginnings and breakthrough ===
Ishiguro set his first two novels in Japan; however, in several interviews, he said that he has little familiarity with Japanese writing and that his works bear little resemblance to [[Japanese literature|Japanese fiction]].<ref name=":1" /> ''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]'' (1986) is set in an unnamed Japanese city during the [[Occupation of Japan|Allied Occupation of Japan]] following [[Surrender of Japan|the nation's surrender]] at the end of [[World War II]]. The narrator is forced to come to terms with his part in [[Japan during World War II|World War II]]. He is criticized by the [[Post-occupation Japan|younger generation]], who hold him responsible for [[Empire of Japan|Japan's]] misguided foreign policy. As a result, he is compelled to reevaluate his beliefs in light of the [[Modern world|modern ideals]] represented by his grandson. Ishiguro said of his choice of time period, "I tend to be attracted to pre-war and postwar settings because I'm interested in this business of values and ideals being tested, and people having to face up to the notion that their ideals weren't quite what they thought they were before the test came."<ref name="bomb">{{Cite magazine |last=Swift |first=Graham |url=http://bombsite.com/issues/29/articles/1269 |title=Kazuo Ishiguro |magazine=[[Bomb (magazine)|BOMB]] |date=Fall 1989 |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=2 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202152336/http://bombsite.com/issues/29/articles/1269 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In an interview in 1989, when discussing his Japanese heritage and its influence on his upbringing, he stated, "I'm not entirely like English people because I've been brought up by Japanese parents in a Japanese-speaking home. My parents (...) felt responsible for keeping me in touch with [[Japanese values]]. I do have a distinct background. I think differently, my perspectives are slightly different."<ref name="bomb" /> In a 1990 interview, Ishiguro said, "If I wrote under a pseudonym and got somebody else to pose for my jacket photographs, I'm sure nobody would think of saying, 'This guy reminds me of that Japanese writer.'"<ref name=":1">{{cite book|title=Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists|last1=Vorda|first1=Allan|last2=Herzinger|first2=Kim|publisher=Rice University Press|year=1994|isbn=0-8926-3323-9|page=25|chapter=Stuck on the Margins: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro}}</ref> Although some Japanese writers have had a distant influence on his writing—[[Jun'ichirō Tanizaki]] is the one he most frequently cites—Ishiguro has said that Japanese films, especially those of [[Yasujirō Ozu]] and [[Mikio Naruse]], have been a more significant influence.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mason|first=Gregory|year=1989|title=An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro|journal=[[Contemporary Literature (journal)|Contemporary Literature]]|volume=30|issue=3|page=336|doi=10.2307/1208408|jstor=1208408}}</ref>

In 1989 he released his book ''[[The Remains of the Day]]'', set in the large [[English country house|country house]] of an [[Peerage of England|English lord]] in the period surrounding [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro – a subtle masterpiece of quiet desperation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jan/07/the-remains-of-the-day-by-kazuo-ishiguro-book-to-share |first=Peter |last=Beech |date=7 January 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=6 October 2017}}</ref> The book received widespread acclaim as well as the [[Booker Prize|Booker Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-remains-of-the-day|title= The Remains of the Day|website= The Booker Prizes|date= January 1989|accessdate= February 27, 2024}}</ref> The novel was adapted by [[Merchant Ivory]] and made into a [[The Remains of the Day (film)|1993 film of the same name]] starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] and [[Emma Thompson]].<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/17/the-remains-of-the-day-revisit-anthony-hopkins-and-emma-thompsons-classic-tale-of-longing|title= The Remains of the Day: revisit Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson's classic tale of longing|website= The Guardian|date= 17 September 2021|accessdate= February 27, 2024|last1= Wang|first1= Michelle}}</ref>

===  1995–2018: Established career and acclaim ===
[[File:Cast of Never Let Me Go @ BFI Film Festival.jpg|thumb|Ishiguro (front) with the cast of the [[Never Let Me Go (2010 film)|''Never Let Me Go'']] film in 2010]]
His fourth novel, ''[[The Unconsoled]]'' (1995), takes place in an unnamed [[Central Europe]]an city. It received the [[Cheltenham Prize for Literature]]. A 2006 poll of various literary critics voted the novel as the third "best British, Irish, or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005",<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/08/fiction.features1 | newspaper= The Guardian | title=What's the best novel in the past 25 years? | author=Robert McCrum | date=8 October 2006 | accessdate=27 February 2024}}</ref> tied with [[Anthony Burgess]]'s ''[[Earthly Powers]]'', [[Salman Rushdie]]'s ''[[Midnight's Children]]'', [[Ian McEwan]]'s ''[[Atonement (novel)|Atonement]]'', and [[Penelope Fitzgerald]]'s ''[[The Blue Flower]]''.

Some of Ishiguro's novels are set in the past. ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' (2005) has [[science fiction]] qualities and a [[futuristic]] tone; however, it is set in the 1980s and 1990s, and takes place in a [[parallel universe (fiction)|parallel world]] very similar to ours. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "[[Time's List of the 100 Best Novels|100 Best English-language novels published since 1923]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Grossman |first=Lev |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/never-let-me-go-2005-by-kazuo-ishiguro/ | magazine=Time | title=All-Time 100 Novels | date=8 January 2010 | access-date=27 February 2024}}</ref> The novel was adapted into the [[Never Let Me Go (2010 film)|2010 film of the same name]] starring [[Keira Knightley]], [[Andrew Garfield]], and [[Carey Mulligan]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.npr.org/2010/09/14/129838461/in-a-dystopian-britain-teens-grope-toward-a-future|title= In A Dystopian Britain, Teens Grope Toward A Future|website= NPR|date= 14 September 2010|accessdate= February 27, 2024|last1= Jenkins|first1= Mark}}</ref> With the exception of ''[[The Buried Giant]]'' (2015), Ishiguro's novels are written in the [[first-person narrative]] style.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/kazuo-ishiguros-legendary-novel-the-remains-of-the-day-resurges/article20077637/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com& |title=Salman Rushdie on Kazuo Ishiguro: His legendary novel The Remains of the Day resurges |last=Rushdie |first=Salman |date=15 August 2014 |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |access-date=6 October 2017 |author-link=Salman Rushdie}}</ref>

In 2017, Ishiguro was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (see below).<ref name="Nobel" /> Ishiguro was appointed [[Knight Bachelor]] for services to literature in the [[2018 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Kazuo Ishiguro: Knighthood part of 'big love affair with Britain' |date=7 February 2019 |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/kazuo-ishiguro-knighthood-part-of-big-love-affair-with-britain-1.3785813}}</ref> and was later appointed to the [[Order of the Companions of Honour]] in the [[2024 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Gareth Southgate, Stephen Fry and Olympians lead New Year Honours list|first=Grace |last=Dean|author2=George Sandeman|publisher=BBC News |date=30 December 2024|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ln96d4yyeo#:~:text=Rarer%20still%2C%20the%20novelist%20Sir%20Kazuo%20Ishiguro%20is%20made%20a%20Companion%20of%20Honour%2C%20a%20select%20group%20which%20is%20limited%20to%2065%20people%20at%20any%20one%20time.}}</ref>

===Nobel Prize in Literature===
{{Main|2017 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
[[File:Kazuo Ishiguro in Stockholm 2017 07.jpg|thumb|Kazuo Ishiguro at the press conference in Stockholm 6 December 2017]]
[[File:Kazuo Ishiguro in Stockholm 2017 06.jpg|thumb|Kazuo Ishiguro with the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, [[Sara Danius]]]]
In 2017, Ishiguro was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] with the motivation "in novels of great emotional force, [he] has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".<ref name="Nobel" /> Ishiguro was seen as a surprise choice by many observers, but the choice was generally well received. "The [[Swedish Academy]] has made some dubious – and [[2016 Nobel Prize in Literature|last year]] attention-seeking – decisions in recent years, but this year its 18 voters have got it right", [[John Mullan (academic)|John Mullan]], professor of English at [[University College London]], wrote in ''[[The Guardian]]'', "It is because he writes for all times, using such carefully controlled means, rigorous yet utterly original, that Ishiguro is such a worthy winner."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/05/kazuo-ishiguro-nobel-prize-novelist-all-times-john-mullan |title=Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel prize winner and a novelist for all times |author=Mullan, John |date=5 October 2017 |work=The Guardian }}</ref>

[[Salman Rushdie]] said “Many congratulations to my old friend Ish, whose work I’ve loved and admired ever since I first read ''[[A Pale View of Hills]]''".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2017/oct/05/the-2017-nobel-prize-in-literature-live |title=Nobel prize in literature 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro wins – as it happened |work=The Guardian |date=5 October 2017}}</ref> In response to receiving the award, Ishiguro stated:<blockquote>It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation. The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment. I'll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.<ref name="bbc2017" /></blockquote> 

At the award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 2017, [[Sara Danius]], permanent secretary of the [[Swedish Academy]], compared his writing to 19th century writers such as [[Jane Austen]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Charlotte Brontë]] and [[George Eliot]] mixed with influences from [[Franz Kafka]], and said: {{quote|Ishiguro too is an innovator, always taking risks. With every new book he investigates a new genre-mix, with elements of the detective story, science fiction, myth&nbsp;... The window of the novel has always been wide. Ishiguro has widened it even more."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2017/ceremony-speech/ |title=Award Ceremony speech | publisher=nobelprize.org}}</ref> }}

=== 2021–present: ''Klara and the Sun'' and ''Living'' ===
Ishiguro's eighth novel, ''[[Klara and the Sun]]'', was published by [[Faber and Faber]] on 2 March 2021. Rumaan Alam of ''[[The New Republic]]'' wrote it is "more simple than it seems, less novel than parable."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Alam |first1=Rumaan |title=Kazuo Ishiguro's Deceptively Simple Story of AI |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/161899/kazuo-ishiguro-klara-sun-review-deceptively-simple-story-ai |access-date=13 April 2021 |publisher=New Republic |date=12 April 2021}}</ref> It was longlisted for the 2021 [[Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction/2021|title=The 2021 Booker Prize longlist is|publisher=The Booker Prizes|date=27 July 2021}}</ref> In this novel, narrated from the perspective of an "Artificial Friend" named Klara, he discusses subjects such as the dangers of [[Dangers of artificial intelligence|technological advancement]], the future of our world, and the meaning of being human that he also broached in his earlier books.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Novak|first=Kris|year=2021| url=https://www.raintaxi.com/klara-and-the-sun/ |title=Klara and the Sun |journal=[[Rain Taxi]]|oclc=939786025 |issn=1943-4383}}</ref>

Ishiguro adapted the screenplay for the 2022 British film ''[[Living (2022 film)|Living]]'', directed by [[Oliver Hermanus]] and starring [[Bill Nighy]], from the 1952 Japanese film ''[[Ikiru]]'' directed by [[Akira Kurosawa]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Yossman|first=K. J.|date=18 June 2021|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/global/bill-nighy-film-living-1235000200/|title='Love Actually's' Bill Nighy Looks Dapper in First Image From Oliver Hermanus and Number 9 Films' 'Living'|work=Variety|access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> In 2023, ''Living'' was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/awards/oscars/every-2023-best-actor-first-time-oscar-nominee/|title=Every 2023 Best Actor contender is a first-time Oscar nominee|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|first=Joey |last=Nolfi|date=24 January 2023|access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/living-oscar-nominee-kazuo-ishiguro-loves-top-gun-glass-onion-interview/|title=Nobel Laureate and 'Living' Oscar Nominee Kazuo Ishiguro Loves His Fellow Noms 'Top Gun' and 'Glass Onion'|website=[[The Wrap]]|first=Joe|last= McGovern |date=24 January 2023|access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref>

==Musical work==
Ishiguro has co-written several songs for the jazz singer [[Stacey Kent]] with Kent's husband, saxophonist [[Jim Tomlinson]]. Ishiguro contributed lyrics to Kent's 2007 Grammy-nominated album ''[[Breakfast on the Morning Tram]]'',<ref name="AllmusicBreakfast">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=http://www.allmusic.com/album/breakfast-on-the-morning-tram-mw0000781224 |label=Breakfast on the Morning Tram}}</ref> including its title track, her 2011 album, ''Dreamer in Concert'', her 2013 album ''[[The Changing Lights]]'',<ref name="AllmusicLights">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-changing-lights-mw0002566855 |label=The Changing Lights}}</ref> and her 2017 album, ''I Know I Dream''. Ishiguro also wrote the liner notes to Kent's 2002 album ''In Love Again''.<ref name="kaufman2002">{{Cite news|last=Kaufman|first=Joanne|date=2002-11-01|title=An American in London Brings It Home|language=en-US|page=W14|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1036103601376325991|url-access=subscription|access-date=2022-01-11|issn=0099-9660|id={{ProQuest|2228432287}}}}</ref> Ishiguro first met Kent after he chose her recording of "[[They Can't Take That Away from Me]]" as one of his ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' in 2002 and Kent subsequently asked him to write for her.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-stacey-kent-kazuo-ishiguro-8826373.html|title=How we met: Stacey Kent & Kazuo Ishiguro|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|first=Adam|last=Jacques|date=22 September 2012|access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref>

Ishiguro has said of his lyric writing that "with an intimate, confiding, first-person song, the meaning must not be self-sufficient on the page. It has to be oblique, sometimes you have to read between the lines" and that this realisation has had an "enormous influence" on his fiction writing.<ref name="GuardMar15">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/15/kazuo-ishiguro-i-used-to-see-myself-as-a-musician |title=Kazuo Ishiguro: I used to see myself as a musician. But really, I'm one of those people with corduroy jackets and elbow patches |first=Kate |last=Kellaway |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=22 April 2015 |date=15 March 2015}}</ref>

In March 2024, [[Faber & Faber]] published Ishiguro's book ''[[The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent]]'', a collection of 16 of his lyrics for Kent, with illustrations by Italian-French artist [[Bianca Bagnarelli]].

== Influences ==
Ishiguro counts [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky|Dostoyevsky]] and [[Marcel Proust|Proust]] among his influences. His works have also been compared to [[Salman Rushdie]], [[Jane Austen]], and [[Henry James]], though Ishiguro himself rejects these comparisons.<ref name=GuardianBio>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/kazuo.ishiguro |title=Kazuo Ishiguro |date=22 July 2008 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=27 October 2015}}</ref> When asked who his favorite novelist is, he says "[[Charlotte Brontë]]'s recently edged out Dostoevsky&nbsp;... I owe my career, and a lot else besides, to ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' and ''[[Villette (novel)|Villette]]''."<ref name=":ByTheBook"/>

==Personal life==
Ishiguro has been married to Lorna MacDougall, a social worker, since 1986.<ref>{{cite news|title=My friend Kazuo Ishiguro: 'an artist without ego, with deeply held beliefs'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/08/my-friend-kazuo-ishiguro-artist-without-ego-nobel-prize-robert-mccrum|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|first=Robert |last=McCrum|author-link=Robert McCrum|date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> They met at the West London [[Simon Community|Cyrenians]] homelessness charity in [[Notting Hill]], where Ishiguro was working as a residential resettlement worker. The couple live in [[Golders Green]], North London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/mar/25/fiction.bookerprize2000|title=Between two worlds|work=The Guardian|first=Suzie|last=Mackenzie|date=25 March 2000|accessdate=15 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/nobel-prize-winner-kazuo-ishiguro-on-his-first-screenplay-in-17-years-b1036056.html|title=Nobel prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro on his first screenplay in 17 years|work=Evening Standard|first=Nick|last=Curtis|date=31 October 2022|accessdate=15 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="NWroe">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/19/fiction.kazuoishiguro |title=Living Memories: Kazuo Ishiguro |last=Wroe |first=Nicholas |date=19 February 2005 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=6 October 2017 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Their daughter [[Naomi Ishiguro]] is also an author; she has published two books, including the short story collection ''[[Escape Routes (book)|Escape Routes]]''.<ref name="Mabbott">{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/18224698.review-escape-routes-naomi-ishiguro/ |title=Review: Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro |first=Alastair |last=Mabbott |date=16 February 2020 |newspaper=The Herald |location=Glasgow |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref>

He describes himself as a "serious [[cinephile]]" and "great admirer of [[Bob Dylan]]".<ref name="veconomist">{{cite news|title=Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel laureate for these muddled times|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/10/uncovering-abyss|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=5 October 2017}}</ref> On ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', he chose Dylan's "[[Tryin' to Get to Heaven]]" as his favorite song. His book choice was the ''Collected Short Stories of [[Anton Chekhov]].''<ref>{{cite news| work=BBC Radio 4| title=Desert Island Discs, Kazuo Ishiguro| date=February 22, 2002| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009482g}}</ref>

==Honours and awards==
===National or state honours===
* 1995: [[File:Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon.svg|45px|ribbon bar]] Appointed Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] for services to literature<ref name=BritCouncil/>
* 1998: [[File:Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier ribbon.svg|45px|ribbon bar]] [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] by the French government<ref name=BritCouncil/>
* 2018: [[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 2Class BAR.svg|45px|ribbon bar]] [[Order of the Rising Sun|Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star]] by the Japanese government<ref>{{cite news |title=Japanese Government honours Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE |url=https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/180917decoration.html |agency=Embassy of Japan in the UK |date=17 September 2018}}</ref>
* 2018: [[File:Knight Bachelor Ribbon.svg|45px|ribbon bar]] Appointed [[Knight Bachelor]] for services to literature
* 2024: [[File:Order_of_the_Companions_of_Honour_Ribbon.gif|45px|ribbon bar]] Appointed Member of the [[Order of the Companions of Honour]] for services to literature

===Literary awards===
* 1982: [[Winifred Holtby]] Memorial Prize for ''[[A Pale View of Hills]]''<ref name=BritCouncil/>
* 1986: [[Whitbread Prize]] for ''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]''<ref name=BritCouncil/>
* 1989: [[Booker Prize]] for ''The Remains of the Day''<ref name=BritCouncil/>
* 1989: Elected [[Royal Society of Literature|Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Ishiguro, Kazuo |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/kazuo-ishiguro/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2017: [[2017 Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref name="Nobel"/>
* 2017: [[American Academy of Achievement]]'s Golden Plate Award<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=  https://www.achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#the-arts/}}</ref>
* 2019: [[Bodley Medal]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bodley Medal |url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libraries/bodley-medal |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-08 |title=Celebs come out for star-studded Literary Festival |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17557335.oxford-literary-festival-brings-stars/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=Oxford Mail |language=en}}</ref>

Except for ''A Pale View of Hills'' and ''The Buried Giant'', all of Ishiguro's novels and his short story collection have been shortlisted for major awards.<ref name=BritCouncil/> Most significantly, ''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]'', ''[[When We Were Orphans]]'', and ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' were all short-listed for the Booker Prize (as was ''The Remains of the Day'', which won it). A leaked account of a judging committee's meeting revealed that the committee found itself deciding between ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' and John Banville's ''[[The Sea (novel)|The Sea]]'' before awarding the prize to the latter.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article577423.ece |newspaper=The Times |title=At last, the best Booker book won |first=Rick |last=Gekoski |author-link=Rick Gekoski |date=12 October 2005 |access-date=28 June 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250718064841/https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/at-last-the-best-booker-book-won-893fwb56kt9 |archive-date=18 July 2025 |quote=In the end, it came down to a debate between ''The Sea'' and ''Never Let Me Go''}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sexton |first1=David |title=Kazuo Ishiguro's everyday dystopia |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/03/kazuo-ishiguro-never-let-me-go-everyday-dystopia |access-date=5 May 2025 |work=New Statesman |publisher=Newstatesman.com |date=14 March 2025}}</ref>

===Other distinctions===
* 1983: Published in the [[Granta]] Best Young British Novelists issue<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists-1-1983 |title=Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists |access-date=6 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518011518/http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists-1-1983 |archive-date=18 May 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* 1993: Published in the [[Granta]] Best Young British Novelists issue<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists-2-1993 |title=Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 |access-date=6 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511195502/http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists/Best-of-Young-British-Novelists-2-1993 |archive-date=11 May 2008}}</ref>
* 2005: ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' named on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's list of the 100 greatest English language novels since the magazine's formation in 1923.<ref name="timesonline1945">{{cite news |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/times-list-of-the-100-best-novels/#all |title=Time magazine's greatest English novels |date=5 January 2008 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref>
* 2008: ''[[The Times]]'' ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".<ref>{{cite news |date=5 January 2008 |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511204023/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece  |url-status=dead  |archive-date=11 May 2008  |title=The 50 greatest British writers since 1945  |newspaper=The Times |access-date=1 February 2010 |location=London}}</ref>
* 2018: Ishiguro was awarded a [[Knighthood]] for Services to Literature <ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Vanderhoof |first=Erin |date=2019-02-08 |title=Kazuo Ishiguro Was Knighted by Prince Charles |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/02/kazuo-ishiguro-knighthood-prince-charles |access-date=2024-09-23 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 2023: ''[[Living (2022 film)|Living]]'' was nominated for the 2023 [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]. With the nomination, Ishiguro became the 6th Nobel Prize recipient to earn an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination. Only 2 individuals, [[George Bernard Shaw]] and [[Bob Dylan]] have won both. It was also nominated for the 2022 [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]].<ref name="RCWOscars">{{cite web |title=Kazuo Ishiguro's adapted screenplay 'Living' nominated for Oscars and BAFTAs 2023 |url=https://www.rcwlitagency.com/news/sir-kazuo-ishiguro-s-adapted-screenplay-living-nominated-for-oscars-and-baftas-2023/ |website=RCW Literary Agency |access-date=13 March 2023}}</ref><ref name="Gold Derby">{{cite news |last1=Buchanan |first1=David |title=Kazuo Ishiguro joins rare Oscar club with nomination for 'Living' |url=https://www.goldderby.com/article/2023/kazuo-ishiguro-living-oscars/ |publisher=Gold Derby |date=24 January 2023}}</ref>

==Works==

===Novels===
* ''[[A Pale View of Hills]]'' (1982)<ref name="NP_bio">{{Nobelprize|accessdate=28 April 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]'' (1986)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[The Remains of the Day]]'' (1989)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[The Unconsoled]]'' (1995)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[When We Were Orphans]]'' (2000)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' (2005)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[The Buried Giant]]'' (2015)<ref name="NP_bio" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11140821/Kazuo-Ishiguro-My-wife-thought-first-draft-of-The-Buried-Giant-was-rubbish.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11140821/Kazuo-Ishiguro-My-wife-thought-first-draft-of-The-Buried-Giant-was-rubbish.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Kazuo Ishiguro: My wife thought first draft of The Buried Giant was rubbish |first=Hannah |last=Furness |date=4 October 2014 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=6 October 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* ''[[Klara and the Sun]]'' (2021)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/16/kazuo-ishiguro-announces-new-novel-klara-and-the-sun |title=Kazuo Ishiguro announces new novel, Klara and the Sun |first=Alison |last=Flood |date=16 June 2020 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=16 June 2020 }}</ref>

=== Short-story collections ===

* ''[[Nocturnes (short story collection)|Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall]]'' (2009)<ref name="NP_bio" />

===Screenplays===
* ''A Profile of Arthur J. Mason'' ([[television film]] for [[Channel 4]])<ref name="NWroe"/> (1984)
* ''The Gourmet'' (television film for Channel 4) (1987)
* ''[[The Saddest Music in the World]]'' (2003)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[The White Countess]]'' (2005)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* ''[[Living (2022 film)|Living]]'' (2022)

===Short fiction===
* "A Strange and Sometimes Sadness", "Waiting for J" and "Getting Poisoned" (in ''Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers'', 1981)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* "A Family Supper" (in ''Firebird 2: Writing Today'', 1983)<ref name="NP_bio"/>
* "Summer After the War" (in ''[[Granta]] 7'', 1983)<ref name="NP_bio"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://granta.com/summer-after-the-war/|title=Summer after the War|last=Ishiguro|first=Kazuo|date=1983-03-01|work=Granta Magazine|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US}}</ref>
* "October 1948" (in ''Granta 17'', 1985)<ref name="NP_bio"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://granta.com/october-1948/|title=October, 1948|last=Ishiguro|first=Kazuo|date=1985-09-01|work=Granta Magazine|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* "A Village After Dark" (in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', May 21, 2001)<ref name="NP_bio"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/05/21/a-village-after-dark|title=A Village After Dark|last=Ishiguro|first=Kazuo|date=2001-05-14|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref>

===Lyrics===
* "The Ice Hotel"; "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again"; "Breakfast on the Morning Tram", and "So Romantic"; [[Jim Tomlinson]] / Kazuo Ishiguro, on [[Stacey Kent]]'s 2007 Grammy-nominated album, ''[[Breakfast on the Morning Tram]]''.<ref name="AllmusicBreakfast"/>
*"Postcard Lovers"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album ''Dreamer in Concert'', (2010).
* "The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain"; "Waiter, Oh Waiter", and "The Changing Lights"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album ''[[The Changing Lights]]'' (2013).<ref name="AllmusicLights" />
* "Bullet Train"; "The Changing Lights", and "The Ice Hotel"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album ''I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions'' (2017).
* "The Ice Hotel"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro – [[Quatuor Ébène]], featuring Stacey Kent, on the album ''Brazil'' (2013).
* "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again" ([[Jim Tomlinson]] / Kazuo Ishiguro) on Kent's album ''[[Songs From Other Places]]'' (2021).
* "Craigie Burn", (Jim Tomlinson / Kazuo Ishiguro) on Kent's album ''Songs From Other Places'' (2021).
* 'Postcard Lovers" on Kent's album ''[[Summer Me, Winter Me]]'' (2023).
* ''The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent'', a collection of 16 of his lyrics for Kent, with illustrations by Italian-French artist, [[Bianca Bagnarelli]].

===Adaptations===
* [[The Remains of the Day (film)|''The Remains of the Day'' (1993 film)]]
* [[The Remains of the Day (musical)|''The Remains of the Day'' (2010 musical)]], [[Union Theatre, London]]
* [[Never Let Me Go (2010 film)|''Never Let Me Go'' (2010 film)]]
* ''Never Let Me Go'' (2016 TV miniseries)
* ''An Artist of the Floating World'' (2019 TV movie)
* [[A Pale View of Hills (film)|''A Pale View of Hills'' (2025 film)]]
* [[Klara and the Sun (film)|''Klara and the Sun'' (upcoming film)]]

==See also==
* [[List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* Kazuo Ishiguro's [http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01143 archive] resides at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin 
* {{British council|id=kazuo-ishiguro|name=Kazuo Ishiguro}}
* [http://www.faber.co.uk/author/kazuo-ishiguro/ Faber and Faber page on Ishiguro]
* [http://www.grandstreet.com/gsissues/gs38/gs38c.html Dialogue between Kazuo Ishiguro and Kenzaburo Oe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511023632/http://www.grandstreet.com/gsissues/gs38/gs38c.html |date=11 May 2015 }}
*[http://noblib.internet-box.ch/NLEW.php?authorid=144 List of works]
* {{cite journal |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5829/the-art-of-fiction-no-196-kazuo-ishiguro |title=Kazuo Ishiguro, The Art of Fiction No. 196 | date=Spring 2008 |first=Susannah |last=Hunnewell |journal=[[The Paris Review]]|volume=Spring 2008 |issue=184 }}
* {{cite journal| url=http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/ishiguro.html |title=January Interview: Kazuo Ishiguro |date=October 2000 |first=Linda |last=Richards|journal=January Magazine}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060303143420/http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/04/04/sigla-kazuo-ishiguro-interview/ 2005 interview with Ishiguro] in ''Sigla Magazine''
* [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culturevultureblog/2006/mar/23/guardianbookc2 2006 Guardian Book Club podcast with Ishiguro] by [[John Mullan (academic)|John Mullan]]
* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DC1239F93BA15753C1A96F948260 1989 "A Case of Cultural Misperception," a profile at the ''New York Times''] by [[Susan Chira]]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/19/fiction.kazuoishiguro 2005 "Living Memories," a profile at ''The Guardian''] by Nicholas Wroe
*  NHK WORLD (December 2017). [https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/nhknewsline/inconversation/kazuoishiguro/ Exclusive Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro]
* {{Nobelprize}} including the Nobel Lecture 7 December 2017 ''My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs''

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