Portrait of Kazuo Ishiguro

Postmodern

Kazuo Ishiguro

b. 1954

British novelist (born 1954)

  • United Kingdom · Japan
  • British
  • Postmodernism
  • ◆ Nobel 2017
UGC NET importance

About

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 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".

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl (CC BY 2.5) via Wikimedia Commons.

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b. 1954
800 BCToday

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