Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro è un autore molto apprezzato, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi "The Remains of the Day", "Klara and the Sun", "Never Let Me Go" e diversi altri. Nato a Nagasaki, in Giappone, nel 1954, Ishiguro si trasferì nel Regno Unito all'età di cinque anni, fatto che ha influenzato significativamente la sua produzione letteraria. Il suo background multiculturale e le sue esperienze si riflettono spesso nella sua scrittura, contribuendo alla sua unica e distinta identità letteraria.

La carriera di Ishiguro come romanziere è stata segnata da numerosi premi e riconoscimenti. È stato nominato Ufficiale dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico (OBE) e Fellow della Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Nel 2017, gli è stato conferito il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura per i suoi "romanzi di grande forza emotiva, che hanno scoperto l'abisso sotto la nostra illusoria sensazione di connessione con il mondo". Il suo lavoro è stato tradotto in oltre cinquanta lingue e diversi dei suoi romanzi, tra cui "The Remains of the Day" e "Never Let Me Go", sono stati adattati in film di successo.

Tra le opere più note di Ishiguro figurano "An Artist of the Floating World", che ha vinto il Premio Whitbread 1986, e "The Unconsoled", che ha vinto il Premio Cheltenham 1995. Il suo romanzo del 2015, "The Buried Giant", è stato un bestseller del New York Times. Oltre ai suoi romanzi, Ishiguro ha anche scritto storie brevi e il suo lavoro è stato incluso in diverse antologie e raccolte. Il suo stile narrativo unisce elementi di realismo, fantascienza e fantasy, creando un'esperienza di lettura unica e affascinante che ha catturato l'immaginazione dei lettori e dei critici.
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 A Pale View of Hills 1982
2 An Artist of the Floating World 1986
3 The Remains of the Day 1989
4 The Unconsoled 1995
5 When We Were Orphans 2000
6 Never Let Me Go 2005
7 The Buried Giant 2015
8 Klara and the Sun 2021
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 Come Rain or Come Shine 2019
2 A Family Supper 1983
3 A Village After Dark 2001
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 Nocturnes 2009
Faber Stories Books
# Titolo Anno
1 A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor) 1955
2 The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman) 1968
3 Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain) 1982
4 Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann) 1983
5 Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver) 1989
6 Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra) 1997
7 Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones) 1998
8 An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah) 2009
9 The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett) 2011
10 The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz) 2012
11 Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall) 2014
12 Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns) 2014
13 Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney) 2016
14 Come Rain or Come Shine 2019
15 The Victim (By: P.D. James) 2019
16 Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett) 2019
17 Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien) 2019
18 Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma) 2019
19 The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes) 2019
20 Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath) 2019
21 Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore) 2019
22 The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern) 2019
23 The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan) 2019
24 Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss) 2019
25 A River in Egypt (By: David Means) 2019
26 Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore) 2019
27 Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin) 2019
28 Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine) 2019
Literary Conversations Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
Fumetti
# Titolo Anno
1 The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain 2024
Kazuo Ishiguro Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists 1983
2 Best of Young British Novelists 1983
3 The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories 1987