Chronology

Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro

1954 ---- On 8 november Kazuo Ishiguro was born.

1960 ---- He immigrated with his parents to England.

1973 ---- He worked for a time as a grousebeater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeen, Scotland.

1976 ---- He was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow.

1978 ---- He obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent.

1980 ---- He obtained his Masters from the University of East Anglia.

1981 ---- Three of his short stories were published in Introductions 7: Stories by New Writers.

1982 ---- He wrote his first novel, A Pale View of Hills for this he was warded Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

1983 ---- He was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Writers'.

1984 ---- He wrote his first original screenplay for Channel 4 Television, A Profile of Arthur J. Mason.

1986 ---- He wrote his second novel, An Artist of the Floating World and his second screenplay, The Gourmet. He was prized Booker Prize for Fiction and awarded Whitbread Book of the Year. He married Lorna MacDougall.

1989 ---- He wrote his third novel, The Remains of the Day and was prized Booker Prize for Fiction and Irish Times International Fiction Prize. He returned to Japan for the first time.

1994 ---- He was member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

1995 ---- He wrote his fourth novel, The Unconsoled and he was prized The Cheltenham Prize, awarded Whitbread Novel Award and the OBE for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and prized Premio Scanno (Italy) due to the novel, An Artist of the Floating World.

1998 ---- He was awarded “the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government and prized Premio Mantova (Italy).

2000 ---- He wrote his fifth novel, When We Were Orphans and due to this he prized and awarded Booker Prize for Fiction and Whitbread Novel Award.

2005 ---- He wrote his latest novel, Never Let Me Go and he prized Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Also he completed his first full-length screenplay for The Saddest Music in the World.

2006 ---- He was awarded and prized British Book Awards Author of the Year, Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) and James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) due to the novel, Never Let Me Go.

2007 ---- He returned to write the lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent's new album Breakfast On the Morning Tram.

2008 (Currently) ---- He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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