Nobel Prize for Literature: Here’s a look at British author Kazuo Ishiguro’s most famous works

English author Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday. The highest honour was given to Ishiguro, who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world, the Academy said in its announcement.

Here are some of his most famous books

The Remains of the Day

Ishiguro has been nominated for the Man Booker on four occasions, but The Remains of the Day is the only one to win the award. The story of Stevens, an ageing butler who’s dedicated his life to a cause which he later discovers, is not all that he’d imagined. It was also made into a movie with Sir Anthony Hopkins

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans has all the elements that identify with Ishiguro’s style of writing – an unreliable narrator, past trauma, shifting memories. It is also Ishiguro’s definition of a detective novel. It was one of the other three books that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

An Artist of the Floating World

Set in Japan post-World War II, An Artist of the Floating World is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter who’s now retired. His ‘glory days’ …read more