According to the New York Times, the British writer of Japanese origin is one of the rare groups of writers who are highly appreciated by critics and scholars and are both commercially successful. His works are widely known and many have been adapted for the screen. In the US, Kazuo's novel, which has just received a Swedish prize worth 9 million Krona (more than 1.1 million USD), has sold a total of more than 2.5 million copies.
Jane Austen, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust
When he was young, Kazuo Ishiguro wanted to become a singer and songwriter. The British man of Japanese origin played in folk clubs and experimented with many performance styles before switching to the field of literature.
Although his music career never subsided, he believes that experience created a unique literary style, making him one of the most famous and influential British writers of his generation. Those are very good preparations for the genre of novels I intended to write, where there are many layers of meaning hidden deep within the words, he admitted in an interview in 2005.
The Standing Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius called the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner a writer with great integrity, the one who developed her own aesthetic world, the one who in the novel with her rich emotions discovered the deep, magical corners hidden in us about the world.
Speaking about Kazuo Ishiguro's writing, Standing Secretary Sara Danius described it as a combination of Jane Austen, Franz Kafka and did not forget to add a little of Marcel Proust's "taste".
During his 35 years of career, Mr. Kazuo Ishiguro has been widely recognized for his works. The New York Times reviews that his novels are often written in the first place, with the storytellers denying the gradually revealed truths to readers. The resonance in his plots often comes from rich content, unspoken things, and the gap between the narrator's awareness and reality.
The 62-year-old writer's most famous works are the novel "The Remains of the Day" - the story of a manager serving a master in England in the years before World War II and "Never Let Me Go" - a sad love story set in the context of a boarding school in England.
Rare, mysterious and always surprising
Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje - author of The English Patient said that he was very touched by the Swedish Academy of Sciences selection to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Japanese-American novelist: He is a rare and mysterious writer, and every book of his always surprises me.
Writer Kazuo Ishiguro was born in 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. His father's work - an oceanologist - moved his family to Guildford when Kazuo Ishiguro was 5 years old. Here, during his teenage years, he discovered his passion for literature through the detective Holmes books in the library and even created his own detective stories.
After studying English and philosophy at Kent State University, Canterbury, he received a master's degree in literature from the University of East Anglia in 1980. Since he was young, Ishiguro has stood out in the writing world. In 1983, he was named the best young British writers voted by Granta magazine, along with bright names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman rushdie.
Ishiguro's first novel, A pale View of Hills, written about a middle-aged Japanese woman living in England, published in 1982, won the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. The novel was later called An Artist of the Floating World, set in post-war Japan.
His deep understanding of social customs and the influences of his homeland has made his third novel The Remains of the Day. The Booker Prize-winning book, which was adapted for the screen, was hailed by the Standing Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius as a true masterpiece and was the first handwritten copy of the book in 4 weeks of being tormented by malaria.
His works have a variety of emotions and genres. Critics see The Unconsoled, a novel about a piano artist in an unknown European city, as a work of the magical realism movement when the book was published in 1995. Meanwhile, When We Were Orphans is considered a detective novel. The novel Never Let Me Go published in 2005, published in Vietnam, titled Dont be far from me, is considered a step forward in science fiction.
His most recent novel, The buried Giant, tells the story of the elderly Axl and Beatrice leaving the village together to find their missing son, an example of the topics that writer Ishiguro has covered throughout his literary career.
He has an unusual level of understanding, writing with restraint and control over a number of huge topics, about memories and forgetfulness, about war and love, said Mr. Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Alfred A.Knopf, who has worked with Mr. Ishiguro since his novel The Remains of the Day in 1989.
