In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize.
His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017).
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