In 1960, 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). Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954, the son of Shizuo Ishiguro, a physical oceanographer, and his wife, Shizuko. Time named Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 19.
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". He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize four times, winning the prize in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. He thereafter explored other genres, including science fiction and historical fiction. 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. In its 2017 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". He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL ( / k æ ˈ z uː oʊ ˌ ɪ ʃ ɪ ˈ ɡ ʊər oʊ, ˈ k æ z u oʊ -/ kaz- OO-oh ISH-ig- OOR-oh, KAZ-oo-oh - born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.
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