“There's
something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance
between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged
person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage
years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.”
– Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize
winner Ishiguro, who celebrates his 65th birthday today, is a novelist,
screenwriter and short-story writer who was born in Nagasaki, Japan but grew up
in the United Kingdom. One of the most
celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, he has
also won the coveted Man Booker Prize for his wonderful novel (and movie) The Remains of the Day.
His novel, Never Let Me Go was named by Time Magazine as Novel of the Year in 2005 and included in the magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
In awarding
Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in 2017, the Swedish Academy proclaimed him a writer
"who, in novels of great emotional force has uncovered the abyss beneath
our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Queen Elizabeth II knighted Ishiguro in 2018
in recognition of his lifetime achievement as a writer.
“I'm interested in memory because
it's a filter through which we see our lives,” Ishiguro said. “And…as a writer, I'm more interested in
what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
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