My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

Name: My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
Brand: Faber & Faber
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English

By (author): Kazuo Ishiguro

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece. See more

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Weight: 47g
Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
Publication Date: 11 Dec 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571346547

About Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki Japan in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of six novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982 Winifred Holtby Prize) An Artist of the Floating World (1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award Premio Scanno shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Remains of the Day (1989 winner of the Booker Prize) The Unconsoled (1995 winner of the Cheltenham Prize) When We Were Orphans (2000 shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005 Corine Internationaler Buchpreis Serono Literary Prize Casino de Santiago European Novel Award shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize). Nocturnes (2009) was awarded the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize. Kazuo Ishiguro's work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Gohave also been adapted into major films. In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.