8 November, 1954

Celebrating his 71st birthday today, Japanese-born, naturalised British author and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro / Ishiguro Kazuo OBE FRSA FRSL (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄; born 8 November, 1954), the 2017 Nobel laureate for Literature.

He is perhaps best known for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction award-winning novel "The Remains of the Day" (1989), which was also made into a successful film in 1993, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, which earned eight Academy Awards nominations. https://youtu.be/V6q0dk-GdY4

Time magazine 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 1923 and 2005.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2022 film "Living". https://youtu.be/OVo5kLt_-BU?si=kOqkijrHhqSB5Iss

Do you have a favourite Ishiguro book or screenplay that springs to mind?

Here is a comprehensive list of his published works:

- Novels

A Pale View of Hills (1982)[65]

An Artist of the Floating World (1986)[65]

The Remains of the Day (1989)[65]

The Unconsoled (1995)[65]

When We Were Orphans (2000)[65]

Never Let Me Go (2005)[65]

The Buried Giant (2015)[65][66]

Klara and the Sun (2021)[67]

Short-story collections

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009)[65]

- Screenplays

A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (television film for Channel 4)[15] (1984)

The Gourmet (television film for Channel 4) (1987)

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)[65]

The White Countess (2005)[65]

Living (2022)

- Short fiction

"A Strange and Sometimes Sadness", "Waiting for J" and "Getting Poisoned" (in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers, 1981)[65]

"A Family Supper" (in Firebird 2: Writing Today, 1983)[65]

"Summer After the War" (in Granta 7, 1983)[65][68]

"October 1948" (in Granta 17, 1985)[65][69]

"A Village After Dark" (in The New Yorker, May 21, 2001)[65][70]

- Lyrics

"The Ice Hotel"; "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again"; "Breakfast on the Morning Tram", and "So Romantic"; Jim Tomlinson / Kazuo Ishiguro, on Stacey Kent's 2007 Grammy-nominated album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram.[39]

"Postcard Lovers"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album Dreamer in Concert, (2010).

"The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain"; "Waiter, Oh Waiter", and "The Changing Lights"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album The Changing Lights (2013).[40]

"Bullet Train"; "The Changing Lights", and "The Ice Hotel"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions (2017).

"The Ice Hotel"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro – Quatuor Ébène, featuring Stacey Kent, on the album Brazil (2013).

"I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again" (Jim Tomlinson / Kazuo Ishiguro) on Kent's album Songs From Other Places (2021).

"Craigie Burn", (Jim Tomlinson / Kazuo Ishiguro) on Kent's album Songs From Other Places (2021).

'Postcard Lovers" on Kent's album Summer Me, Winter Me (2023).

The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent, a collection of 16 of his lyrics for Kent, with illustrations by Italian-French artist, Bianca Bagnarelli.

- Adaptations

The Remains of the Day (1993 film)

The Remains of the Day (2010 musical), Union Theatre, London

Never Let Me Go (2010 film)

Never Let Me Go (2016 TV miniseries)

An Artist of the Floating World (2019 TV movie)

A Pale View of Hills (2025 film)

Klara and the Sun (upcoming film)

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