Awards & Winners

Kazuo Ishiguro

Date of Birth 08-November-1954
Place of Birth Nagasaki
(Japan, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu)
Nationality Japan, United Kingdom
Also know as カズオ・イシグロ, 石黒 一雄, Ishiguro Kazuo
Profession Novelist, Author, Writer
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a Japanese-born British novelist. He was born in Nagasaki and his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative-writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Awards by Kazuo Ishiguro

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kazuo Ishiguro.

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Arthur C. Clarke Award Never Let Me Go
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Never Let Me Go

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Never Let Me Go
Man Booker Prize Never Let Me Go

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize When We Were Orphans

1989


Man Booker Prize
Honored for : The Remains of the Day

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize The Remains of the Day

1986


Costa Book of the Year
Honored for : An Artist of the Floating World

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize An Artist of the Floating World