Kazuo Ishiguro - Awards

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: OBE
• 1998: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2005: Time magazine names Never Let Me Go on its list of the 100 greatest English language novels since the magazine formed in 1923.
• 2008: The Times named Ishiguro among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Except for A Pale View of Hills, all of Ishiguro's novels and his short story collection have been shortlisted for major awards. Most significantly, An Artist of the Floating World, When We Were Orphans, and Never Let Me Go, were all short-listed for the Booker Prize. A leaked account of a judging committee's meeting revealed that the committee found itself deciding between Never Let Me Go and John Banville's The Sea before awarding the prize to the latter.