The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro, born on November 8, 1954, in Nagasaki, Japan, is a renowned British novelist and screenwriter. He moved to the United Kingdom with his family when he was five years old. Ishiguro’s distinguished literary career is marked by his profound exploration of memory, time, and self-delusion. He has received numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, for his novels that have “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” His notable works include The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize in 1989, and Never Let Me Go, which was adapted into a successful film. The Buried Giant, published in 2015, is another significant contribution to his oeuvre, blending historical fiction with fantasy to explore themes of collective memory and forgetting. Ishiguro’s unique narrative style and profound thematic concerns continue to captivate and challenge readers and critics alike.