Autor
Biography
In
1981 he
published three short stories, then in 1982 he published A Pale View
of
Hills, which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and in 1983 he
was
nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British
Writers'. An Artist of the Floating World followed in 1986, it
won
the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Booker
Prize
for Fiction.
The Remains of the
Day was
published in 1989 - it won the Booker Prize for Fiction and was later
made into
a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled was
published in
1995 and his fifth When We
Were
Orphans in 2000.
His most recent novel, Never
Let Me
Go, was published in 2005. He has also recently completed his
first
full-length screenplay for The
Saddest Music in the World, a melodrama set in the 1930s,
starring
Isabella Rossellini.
His work has been translated into approximately 30 languages. In 1995 he
received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, he
is also a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1998 was named a
Chevalier de
l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
Before becoming a writer of novels, Ishiguro worked as a singer-
songwriter. In
2007, for the first time in nearly 30 years, he returned to his previous
vocation to write the lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent's new album Breakfast On the Morning
Tram.
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Ishiguro“BookBrowse,December 20,2007 <http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?
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