331- ] English Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro
Facts
Kazuo Ishiguro
© Nobel Prize
Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize in
Literature 2017
Born: 8 November
1954, Nagasaki, Japan
Prize motivation:
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our
illusory sense of connection with the world”
Prize share: 1/1
Life
Kazuo Ishiguro was
born in Nagasaki, Japan. When he was five, the family moved to Guildford in
Surrey, England, where his father, an oceanographer, had been invited to work
at a research institute. In his youth Kazuo Ishiguro first wanted to become a
musician, but he studied English and philosophy at the University of Kent and
then creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where he earned a
master’s degree in 1980. Since then he has worked as a writer. Kazuo Ishiguro
is married and has a daughter.
Work
Memory, time and
lifelong deception are central themes in Kazuo Ishiguro’s works. Growing up in
a Japanese family in Great Britain has colored his thinking and perspectives.
His first two novels are set in Japan. His most celebrated work, The Remains of
the Day, published in 1989, is about an English butler and his feelings for a
housekeeper at the time around World War II. In later works Ishiguro approached
genres such as fantasy and science fiction. His language is characterized by
restraint, even when dramatic events are portrayed.
No comments:
Post a Comment