Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, Booker-Prize winning author
In conversation
Wednesday 24 March, Augustine House Hall, Canterbury
Booker-Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro will be discussing his work on the 24 March 2010 in a very special one-off event at Augustine House.
This is a unique opportunity to hear Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation discussing all his work, including the novels Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, plus his most recent book Nocturnes. He will also be available after the event to sign copies of his work.
Biography
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and has lived in Britain since the age of five. His six best-selling novels have won him international acclaim and many honours, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, an OBE for Services to Literature and the French decoration Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into forty languages, and The Remains of the Day was adapted into an award-winning film starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins. The film version of Never Let Me Go is due for release in autumn 2010, starring Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan.
His most recent work is Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall.
Kazuo Ishiguro was described as ‘an original and remarkable genius’ by the New York Times and Never Let Me Go as ‘the year’s most extraordinary novel’ by Peter Kemp in Sunday Times.