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Kazuo Ishiguro: books and prizes

Kazuo Ishiguro is a novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan, whose family moved to Britain in 1960. He won the Booker Prize in 1989 for The Remains of the Day. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.^2,4,1

Works, in order of first publication

1. 1982A Pale View of Hills²novel
2. 1986An Artist of the Floating World²novel
3. 1989The Remains of the Day^2,4novel
4. 1995The Unconsoled²novel
5. 2000When We Were Orphans²novel
6. 2005Never Let Me Go²novel
7. 2009Nocturnes, Five Stories of Music and Nightfall²short stories
8. 2015The Buried Giant²novel

Prizes

1. 1982Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize²For A Pale View of Hills
2. 1986Whitbread Book of the Year^2,3For An Artist of the Floating World
3. 1989Booker Prize^4,2,3For The Remains of the Day
4. 2017Nobel Prize in Literature^1,3For Body of work

Sources

1. Nobel Prize Outreach, Kazuo Ishiguro, Facts, Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 (accessed 2026-10-28)
2. Nobel Prize Outreach, Kazuo Ishiguro, Biographical, Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 (accessed 2026-10-28)
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kazuo Ishiguro, Encyclopaedia Britannica (last updated 2026-10-19)
4. The Booker Prizes, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Booker Prizes author page (accessed 2026-10-28)