i have made this video on one of the greatest contemporary writers in the British literature-Kazuo Ishiguro. He won noble prize for literature on 2017.

1. Kazuo Ishiguro and His works
• Presented By
• Prof. Sagar.Vyas (Research Scholar)
• Assistant Professor (English)
• Shri Sarvajanik Science College,
• Mehsana (Affiliated with HNGU)
• Patan, Gujarat.

2. Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
Born in Nagasaki, Japan.
Moved to United kingdom in 1960.
He is British-Japanese Novelist.
His father was an Oceanographer.
Ishiguro is one of the most contemporary fi
ctional writers in Britain.
He won Noble prize for Literature in 2017
He is Known as an “International Writer”

3. His Novels
• A Pale View of Hills (1982)
• An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
• The Remains of the Day (1989)
• The Unconsoled (1995)
• When We Were Orphans (2000)
• Never Let Me Go (2005)
• The Buried Giant (2015)

4. Novels

5. Awards
• 1982: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for A Pale View of Hills
• 1983: Published in the Granta Best Young British Novelists issue
• 1986: Whitbread Prize for An Artist of the Floating World
• 1989: Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
• 1993: Published in the Granta Best Young British Novelists issue
• 1995: Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• 1998: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2005: Never Let Me Go named on Time magazine's list of the 100 greatest
English language novels since the magazine's formation in 1923.
• 2008: The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest Briti
sh Writers Since 1945".
• 2017: Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 2017: American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award
• 2018: Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star

6. Screenplays
• A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (television film fo
r Channel 4) (1984)
• The Gourmet (television film for Channel 4) (1
987)
• The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
• The White Countess (2005)

7. Short fiction
• "A Strange and Sometimes Sadness", "Waiting for
J" and "Getting Poisoned" (in Introduction 7: Stori
es by New Writers, 1981)
• "A Family Supper" (in Firebird 2: Writing Today, 1
983)
• "Summer After the War" (in Granta 7, 1983)
• "October 1948" (in Granta 17, 1985)
• "A Village After Dark" (in The New Yorker, May 21
, 2001)

8. Short-story collections
• Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music
and Nightfall (2009)
Music Album

9. Personal life
• Ishiguro has been married to Lorna MacDougall, a social wo
rker, since 1986. They met at the West London Cyrenians h
omelessness charity in Notting Hill, where Ishiguro was wor
king as a residential resettlement worker. The couple lives i
n London with their daughter Naomi.
• Ishiguro wrote in an opinion piece "that the UK is now very
likely to cease to exist" as a result of the 2016 United Kingd
om European Union membership referendum.
• He describes himself as a "serious cinephile" and "great ad
mirer of Bob Dylan", a previous recipient of the Nobel Liter
ature prize.

10. Noble Prize-2017
• In 2017, Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature, because "in novels of great emot
-ional force, he has uncovered the abyss bene-
ath our illusory sense of connection with the
world". In response to receiving the award, Ish
iguro stated:

11. In response to receiving the award
, Ishiguro stated:
• “It‘s a magnificent honour, mainly because it mea
ns that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest author
s that have lived, so that's a terrific commendatio
n. The world is in a very uncertain moment and I
would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force
for something positive in the world as it is at the
moment. I'll be deeply moved if I could in some w
ay be part of some sort of climate this year in con
tributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a
very uncertain time.”

12. His Novel’s Themes
• Ishiguro's novels are characterized by the way that the
calm expository style and seemingly unimportant conc
erns of the narrators disguise a world fraught by regret
s, unresolved emotional conflicts, and a deep yearning
to recapture (and make sense of) the past.
• Ishiguro’s novels deal with self-deception, regret, and p
ersonal reflection.
• His novels explore the past via themes of human mem
ory – and forgetting. Honored with the Nobel Prize for
Literature, the best-selling author actually first dreame
d of being a pop musician.

13. Pale View of Hills
• His first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1
982), narrated by a Japanese widow
living in England, draws on the destr
uction and rehabilitation of Nagasak
i

14. The Remains of the Day
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s most famous nov
el is The Remains of the Day. The n
ovel won the Booker Prize.

15. The Remains Of The Day
• The Remains of the Day has become a
modern classic after it won not only the
Man Booker Prize in 1989, but also was
turned into a film.
• In 1993. Historical context is a key aspe
ct of The Remains of the Day, and in this
case, the novel takes place during the y
ears leading up to World War II.
• Stevens' deep examination of the aristo
cracy's place in England suggests that th
e novel is less a critique of imperialism a
nd more a struggle to evaluate its legac
y

16. Never Let Me Go
• Let Me Go Never Let Me Go addres
ses some contemporary issues.
• Never Let Me Go was extremely w
ell-received critically, and is include
d in the curriculum of many high-sc
hool and college courses.
• It was adapted into a film by Mark
Romanek in 2010

17. Never Let Me Go
• Ishiguro highlights many for
ms of willful ignorance, of iss
ues social (like the organ don
ations) and personal (like sex
and virginity).
• The most common objection
raised to cloning and genetic
engineeringboth in Never Let
Me Go and in generalis that i
t involves 'playing God.

18. An Artist of the Floating World
• It is set in post-World War II Japan and is n
arrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter,
who looks back on his life and how he has
lived it.
• He notices how his once great reputation
has faltered since the war and how attitud
es towards him and his paintings have cha
nged.
• The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to
accept responsibility for his past actions a
nd in the expostulation to find a path to p
eace in his good will for the young white c
ollar workers on the streets at lunch break
.
• The novel also deals with the role of peopl
e in a rapidly changing environment.

19. Themes
• Politicisation of art
• Unreliable narrator
• Responsibility
• Changing values
• Marriage negotiations
• An Artist of the Floating World discusses several themes thr
ough the memories of the narrator, Masuji Ono.
• The analysis of these themes is facilitated through the trans
cendence of time, allowing the audience's rumination on O
no's experiences permitting them to judge the narrative obj
ectively. Many of these themes are interwoven together su
pporting one another.

20. When We Were Orphans
• It is loosely categorised as a d
etective novel. When We Wer
e Orphans was shortlisted for
the 2000 Man Booker Prize, t
hough it is considered one of
Ishiguro's weakest works, wit
h Ishiguro himself saying "It's
not my best book".

21. The Buried Gaint
• The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by t
he Nobel Prize-winning British writer Ka
zuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.
• The novel follows an elderly Briton coup
le, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional
post-Arthurian England in which no-one
is able to retain long term memories.
• After dimly recalling that they might ye
ars earlier have had a son, the couple d
ecide to travel to a neighbouring village
to seek him out.

22. Continue..
• The book was nominated for t
he 2016 World Fantasy Awar
d for best novel, and the 201
6 Mythopoeic Award for Adult
Literature. It was also placed si
xth in the 2016 Locus Award f
or Best Fantasy Novel.
• The book has been translated i
nto French, German, Spanish a
nd Italian.

23. His Techniques
• Part of Ishiguro's appeal is his reserved style. He a
lso reveals parts of his plots gradually, so the read
er almost feels like a detective uncovering clues. T
hat style could be a product of the manner in whi
ch the novelist works. Ishiguro is a slow writer, an
d the books do not come easily for him.
• "Every time I've got another novel to write I just c
an't believe that I ever managed to write the one
before. I do desperate things. I make notes. I spen
d a lot of time thinking. I'd do almost anything to
get it going," he says. "I'm not the kind of writer
who can put a sheet of paper into the typewriter
and improvise. I have to know more or less the w
hole structure of the book beforehand.“

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• Another appealing aspect of Ishiguro's work is his char
acters. They tend to come from experiences much diff
erent from his. In A Pale View of Hills, the narrator is a
woman. "I've always found it easier to be intimate and
revealing with characters who were not like me," he ex
plains, "When you're dealing with someone not like yo
urself, you have to think much harder about why that p
erson behaves in certain ways, why things have happe
ned to him or her. I think one of the dangers of having
a kind of alter ego in fiction is that you drag in all kinds
of things that are irrelevent in an artistic sense simply
because they are things that you are concerned with a
s a person yourself." Moreover, he tends to concern hi
mself with older characters in historical contexts, all of
whom have done things they regret. He reasons that lo
oking at what has happened to them can fight complac
ency in himself, a member of the younger generation.

25. Kazuo Ishiguro: Literary Relations
• Roland Barthes and Ishiguro: The Butler as Myth
• Nostalgia, Historicity, Hybridity: Representations of Asian identities in the historical
novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Catherine Lim
• Contrasting Uses of the Narrator: An Analysis of Rushdie and Ishiguro
• Some Questions about Literary Relations for Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
• Dueling Stories in Rushdie and Ishiguro
• Rushdie, Ishiguro, and the Art of Story-Telling
• Taking Responsibility: A Discussion of Ideological Positioning in Anthills of the Savan
nah and The Remains of the Day
• Merging Past and Present: Finding Strength in the Wake of Colonialism [The Remain
s of the Day, In Custody, and Once Were Warriors]
• Fragile Books, Fragile Selves: Past and Present in Jeyaretnam, Swift, and Ishiguro
• The Rejection of Women in The Remains of the Day, In Custody, and Once Were W
arriors
• The Acceptance of Women in The Remains of the Day, In Custody, and Once Were
Warriors

26. Noble Prize-2017
• Danius said that Ishiguro's writing combines Jane
Austen and Franz Kafka, to which "you have to ad
d a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix, and the
n you stir, but not too much."
• He is an author of "great integrity" who has devel
oped his own aesthetic style, she added.
• "He is very interested in understanding the past,
but he is not a Proustian writer – he is not out to
redeem the past, he is exploring what you have t
o forget in order to survive in the first place, as an
individual or as a society."

27. Overview of Ishiguro’s Works
• The 2017 Nobel literature laureate has so far published a relatively s
mall body of work, with seven novels and one short story collection
to his name – along with TV and film screenplays and song lyrics.
• Nonetheless, his first novel, which was set in post-WWII Japan, mad
e him a household name; while his second novel, "An Artist of the F
loating World," published four years later, was a bestseller in Britain
and earned Ishiguro the Whitbread Prize.
• While Ishiguro's early books did not sell as well in the US, that chan
ged with the novel that's still regarded as his masterwork. "The Rem
ains of the Day" (1989) made the then 35-year-old one of Britain's
most successful authors after it won him the Booker Prize and went
on to sell more than a million copies in England alone. A 1993 scree
n adaptation of the story of a loyal and selfless English butler before
and after the war saw Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson nomi
nated for as Oscar in the lead roles; the film received eight Oscar no
minations.

28. Memory and forgetting
• "The Remains of the Day" deals with a fundamental theme
found throughout Ishiguro's writing: Are there human value
s ​​that defy shifting times and that should not change? What
happens when social values ​​do change?
• "How much forgetting is desirable? How much rememberin
g is desirable?" Ishiguro asked in a 2015 interview with DW.
There is no simple answer to finding this balance, he said.
What makes people devoted servants and subjects? And w
hat makes them commit cruel acts, perhaps with the best i
ntentions?
• "The Remains of the Day" begins like a P. G. Wodehouse no
vel and ends like a Kafkaesque parable, pointed out Sara Da
nius after the Nobel prize was announced.

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• She also noted that her personal favourite Ishiguro nov
el is "The Buried Giant" (2015), his most recent book. S
et in a half-fictional version of England around 300 A.D.
, the novel combines fantasy and history and utilizes Is
higuro's subtle tone and carefully drawn characters to t
ransform the nightmares of the past, or of an imaginabl
e future, into fiction that deals with very current issues.
• In this light, Danius said she hoped the choice of this "a
bsolutely brilliant novelist" would, following the conjec
ture surrounding Bob Dylan's 2016 Nobel literature priz
e, "make the world happy."