He attended Stoughton Primary School and then Woking County Grammar School in Surrey. Ishiguro, who has been described as a British Asian author, explained in a BBC interview how growing up in a Japanese family in the UK was crucial to his writing, enabling him to see things from a different perspective from that of many of his English peers. In an interview with Kenzaburō Ōe, Ishiguro stated that the Japanese settings of his first two novels were imaginary: 'I grew up with a very strong image in my head of this other country, a very important other country to which I had a strong emotional tie … In England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan.' He did not return to visit Japan until 1989, nearly 30 years later, when he was a participant in the Japan Foundation Short-Term Visitors' Programme. In 1960, Ishiguro moved with his family to Guildford, Surrey, as his father was invited for research at the National Institute of Oceanography (now the National Oceanography Centre). Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954, the son of Shizuo Ishiguro, a physical oceanographer, and his wife, Shizuko. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2022 film Living. Time named Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 19. Salman Rushdie praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he 'turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis'. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize four times, winning the prize in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993.

He thereafter explored other genres, including science fiction and historical fiction.

His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their mournful tone. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. 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'. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. oʊ/ born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL ( Japanese: 石黒一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo, / k æ ˈ z uː.

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