Kazuo Ishiguro - Wikipedia Kazuo Ishiguro From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search English author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL Ishiguro in Stockholm in December 2017 Native name 石黒 一雄 カズオ・イシグロ Born (1954-11-08) 8 November 1954 (age 66) Nagasaki, Japan Occupation Novelist short story writer screenwriter columnist songwriter Nationality British Citizenship Japan (until 1983) United Kingdom (since 1983) Education University of Kent (BA) University of East Anglia (MA) Period 1981–present Genre Drama Historical fiction Science fiction Genre fiction Notable works An Artist of the Floating World The Remains of the Day When We Were Orphans Never Let Me Go Notable awards Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1982 A Pale View of Hills Whitbread Prize 1985 An Artist of the Floating World Booker Prize 1989 The Remains of the Day Order of the British Empire 1995 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 Order of the Rising Sun 2018 Knight Bachelor 2019 Spouse Lorna MacDougall ​ (m. 1986)​ Children Naomi Ishiguro (b. 1992) Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (/kæˈzuːoʊ ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊəroʊ, ˈkæzuoʊ -/; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world. He has received four Man Booker Prize nominations and won the award in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro's 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, was named by Time as the best novel of the year and was included in the magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".[1] Contents 1 Early life 2 Literary career 3 Musical work 4 Personal life 5 Awards 6 Works 6.1 Novels 6.2 Short-story collections 6.3 Screenplays 6.4 Short fiction 6.5 Lyrics 7 References 8 External links Early life[edit] Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954, the son of Shizuo Ishiguro, a physical oceanographer, and his wife, Shizuko.[2] At the age of five,[3] Ishiguro and his family left Japan and moved to Guildford, Surrey, as his father was invited for research at the National Institute of Oceanography (now the National Oceanography Centre).[2][4][5] He did not return to visit Japan until 1989, nearly 30 years later, when he was a participant in the Japan Foundation Short-Term Visitors' Program. In an interview with Kenzaburō Ōe, Ishiguro stated that the Japanese settings of his first two novels were imaginary: "I grew up with a very strong image in my head of this other country, a very important other country to which I had a strong emotional tie… In England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan."[3] Ishiguro, who has been described as a British Asian author,[6] explained in a BBC interview how growing up in a Japanese family in the UK was crucial to his writing, enabling him to see things from a different perspective to that of many of his English peers.[7] He attended Stoughton Primary School and then Woking County Grammar School in Surrey.[2] After finishing school, he took a gap year and travelled through the United States and Canada, all the while writing a journal and sending demo tapes to record companies.[2][8] In 1974, he began studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, graduating in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts(honours) in English and philosophy.[2] After spending a year writing fiction, he resumed his studies at the University of East Anglia where he studied with Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter, and gained a Master of Arts in creative writing in 1980.[2][4] His thesis became his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, published in 1982.[9] He became a UK citizen in 1983.[10] Literary career[edit] This section contains too many or overly lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry. Please help improve the article by presenting facts as a neutrally worded summary with appropriate citations. Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote. (December 2017) Ishiguro set his first two novels in Japan; however, in several interviews, he said that he has little familiarity with Japanese writing and that his works bear little resemblance to Japanese fiction.[11] In an interview in 1989, when discussing his Japanese heritage and its influence on his upbringing, he stated, "I'm not entirely like English people because I've been brought up by Japanese parents in a Japanese-speaking home. My parents (...) felt responsible for keeping me in touch with Japanese values. I do have a distinct background. I think differently, my perspectives are slightly different."[12] When asked about his identity, he said, People are not two-thirds one thing and the remainder something else. Temperament, personality, or outlook don't divide quite like that. The bits don't separate clearly. You end up a funny homogeneous mixture. This is something that will become more common in the latter part of the century—people with mixed cultural backgrounds, and mixed racial backgrounds. That's the way the world is going.[12] In a 1990 interview, Ishiguro said, "If I wrote under a pseudonym and got somebody else to pose for my jacket photographs, I'm sure nobody would think of saying, 'This guy reminds me of that Japanese writer.'"[11] Although some Japanese writers have had a distant influence on his writing—Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is the one he most frequently cites—Ishiguro has said that Japanese films, especially those of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, have been a more significant influence.[13] Ishiguro (front) with the cast of the Never Let Me Go film in 2010 Some of Ishiguro's novels are set in the past. Never Let Me Go has science fiction qualities and a futuristic tone; however, it is set in the 1980s and 1990s, and takes place in a parallel world very similar to ours. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, takes place in an unnamed Central European city. The Remains of the Day is set in the large country house of an English lord in the period surrounding World War II.[14] An Artist of the Floating World is set in an unnamed Japanese city during the Occupation of Japan following the nation's surrender in 1945. The narrator is forced to come to terms with his part in World War II. He finds himself blamed by the new generation who accuse him of being part of Japan's misguided foreign policy, and is forced to confront the ideals of the modern times as represented by his grandson. Ishiguro said of his choice of time period, "I tend to be attracted to pre-war and postwar settings because I'm interested in this business of values and ideals being tested, and people having to face up to the notion that their ideals weren't quite what they thought they were before the test came."[12] With the exception of The Buried Giant, Ishiguro's novels are written in the first-person narrative style.[15] Ishiguro's novels often end without resolution. The issues his characters confront are buried in the past and remain unresolved. Thus Ishiguro ends many of his novels on a note of melancholic resignation. His characters accept their past and who they have become, typically discovering that this realisation brings comfort and an ending to mental anguish. This can be seen as a literary reflection on the Japanese idea of mono no aware.[original research?] Ishiguro counts Dostoyevsky and Proust amongst his influences. His works have also been compared to Salman Rushdie, Jane Austen, and Henry James, though Ishiguro himself rejects these comparisons.[16] In 2017, Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, because "in novels of great emotional force, [he] has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".[1] In response to receiving the award, Ishiguro stated: It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation. The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment. I'll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.[9] In an interview after the announcement of the Nobel Prize, Ishiguro said "I've always said throughout my career that although I've grown up in this country and I'm educated in this country, that a large part of my way of looking at the world, my artistic approach, is Japanese, because I was brought up by Japanese parents, speaking in Japanese" and "I have always looked at the world through my parents' eyes."[17][18] On 7 February 2019, Ishiguro received a knighthood for services to literature.[19] Musical work[edit] Ishiguro has co-written several songs for the jazz singer Stacey Kent with saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, Kent's husband. Ishiguro contributed lyrics to Kent's 2007 Grammy-nominated album Breakfast on the Morning Tram,[20] including its title track, her 2011 album, Dreamer in Concert, her 2013 album The Changing Lights,[21] and her 2017 album, I Know I Dream. Ishiguro also wrote the liner notes to Kent's 2003 album, In Love Again.[22] Ishiguro first met Kent after he chose her recording of "They Can't Take That Away from Me" as one of his Desert Island Discs in 2002 and Kent subsequently asked him to write for her. Ishiguro has said of his lyric writing that "with an intimate, confiding, first-person song, the meaning must not be self-sufficient on the page. It has to be oblique, sometimes you have to read between the lines" and that this realisation has had an "enormous influence" on his fiction writing.[23] Personal life[edit] Ishiguro has been married to Lorna MacDougall, a social worker, since 1986.[24] They met at the West London Cyrenians homelessness charity in Notting Hill, where Ishiguro was working as a residential resettlement worker. The couple lives in London.[25] Their daughter, Naomi Ishiguro, is also pursuing a career as an author.[26] Ishiguro wrote in an opinion piece "that the UK is now very likely to cease to exist" as a result of Brexit.[27] He describes himself as a "serious cinephile" and "great admirer of Bob Dylan",[28] a 2016 recipient of the Nobel Literature prize. Awards[edit] 1982: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for A Pale View of Hills[4] 1983: Published in the Granta Best Young British Novelists issue[29] 1986: Whitbread Prize for An Artist of the Floating World[4] 1989: Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day[4] 1993: Published in the Granta Best Young British Novelists issue[30] 1995: Officer of the Order of the British Empire[4] 1998: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[4] 2005: Never Let Me Go named on Time magazine's list of the 100 greatest English language novels since the magazine's formation in 1923.[31] 2008: The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".[32] 2017: Nobel Prize in Literature[1] 2017: American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award[33] 2018: Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star 2019: Knighthood for services to literature Except for A Pale View of Hills and The Buried Giant, all of Ishiguro's novels and his short story collection have been shortlisted for major awards.[4] 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.[34][35] Works[edit] Novels[edit] A Pale View of Hills (1982)[36] An Artist of the Floating World (1986)[36] The Remains of the Day (1989)[36] The Unconsoled (1995)[36] When We Were Orphans (2000)[36] Never Let Me Go (2005)[36] The Buried Giant (2015)[36][37] Klara and the Sun (2021)[38] Short-story collections[edit] Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009)[36] Screenplays[edit] A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (television film for Channel 4)[25] (1984) The Gourmet (television film for Channel 4) (1987) The Saddest Music in the World (2003)[36] The White Countess (2005)[36] Short fiction[edit] "A Strange and Sometimes Sadness", "Waiting for J" and "Getting Poisoned" (in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers, 1981)[36] "A Family Supper" (in Firebird 2: Writing Today, 1983)[36] "Summer After the War" (in Granta 7, 1983)[39][36] "October 1948" (in Granta 17, 1985)[40][36] "A Village After Dark" (in The New Yorker, May 21, 2001)[41][36] Lyrics[edit] "The Ice Hotel"; "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again"; "Breakfast on the Morning Tram", and "So Romantic"; Jim Tomlinson / Kazuo Ishiguro, on Stacey Kent's 2007 Grammy-nominated album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram.[20] "Postcard Lovers"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album Dreamer in Concert (2011). "The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain"; "Waiter, Oh Waiter", and "The Changing Lights"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album The Changing Lights (2013).[21] "Bullet Train"; "The Changing Lights", and "The Ice Hotel"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro, on Kent's album I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions (2017). "The Ice Hotel"; Tomlinson / Ishiguro – Quatuor Ébène, featuring Stacey Kent, on the album Brazil (2013). References[edit] ^ a b c "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Release". Nobel Prize. Retrieved 5 October 2017. ^ a b c d e f Lewis, Barry (2000). Kazuo Ishiguro. Manchester University Press. ^ a b Oe, Kenzaburo (1991). "The Novelist in Today's World: A Conversation". boundary 2. 18 (3): 110. ^ a b c d e f g h "Kazuo Ishiguro". British Council. Retrieved 15 February 2012. ^ "Modelling the oceans". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 7 October 2017. ^ Tamara S. Wagner (2008). "Gorged-out Cadavers of Hills". In Neil Murphy; Wai-Chew Sim (eds.). British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary. Cambria Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1604975413. British Asian authors like Timothy Mo or Kazuo Ishiguro. ^ "Kazuo Ishiguro keeps calm amid Nobel Prize frenzy". BBC. 6 October 2017. ^ "Sir Kazuo Ishiguro Biography and Interview". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. ^ a b "Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel Literature Prize is 'a magnificent honour'". BBC News. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017. ^ Wroe, Nicholas (19 February 2005). "Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 October 2017. ^ a b Vorda, Allan; Herzinger, Kim (1994). "Stuck on the Margins: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro". Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists. Rice University Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-8926-3323-9. ^ a b c Swift, Graham (Fall 1989). "Kazuo Ishiguro". BOMB. Retrieved 12 January 2012. ^ Mason, Gregory (1989). "An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro". Contemporary Literature. 30 (3): 336. doi:10.2307/1208408. JSTOR 1208408. ^ Beech, Peter (7 January 2016). "The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro – a subtle masterpiece of quiet desperation". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 October 2017. ^ Rushdie, Salman (15 August 2014). "Salman Rushdie on Kazuo Ishiguro: His legendary novel The Remains of the Day resurges". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 6 October 2017. ^ "Kazuo Ishiguro". The Guardian. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2015. ^ Johnson, Simon; Pawlak, Justyna (5 October 2017). "Mixing Kafka with Jane Austen: Ishiguro wins literature Nobel". Reuters. ^ "Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro: Award brings people together on international level". Evening Times. 5 October 2017. ^ "Kazuo Ishiguro: Knighthood part of 'big love affair with Britain'". The Irish Times. 7 February 2019. ^ a b Breakfast on the Morning Tram at AllMusic ^ a b The Changing Lights at AllMusic ^ "Why 'Breakfast on the Morning Tram'?". StaceyKent.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012. ^ Kellaway, Kate (15 March 2015). "Kazuo Ishiguro: I used to see myself as a musician. But really, I'm one of those people with corduroy jackets and elbow patches". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 April 2015. ^ "My friend Kazuo Ishiguro: 'an artist without ego, with deeply held beliefs'". The Guardian. 8 October 2017. ^ a b Wroe, Nicholas (19 February 2005). "Living Memories: Kazuo Ishiguro". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 October 2017. ^ Mabbott, Alastair (16 February 2020). "Review: Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 16 June 2020. ^ Ishiguro, Kazuo (1 July 2016). "Kazuo Ishiguro on his fears for Britain after Brexit". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 July 2016. ^ "Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel laureate for these muddled times". The Economist. 5 October 2017. ^ "Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists". Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2008. ^ "Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2008. ^ "Time magazine's greatest English novels". The Times. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2010. ^ "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. London. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2010. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. ^ Gekoski, Rick (12 October 2005). "At last, the best Booker book won". The Times. Retrieved 28 June 2010. ^ Gekoski, Rick (16 October 2005). "It's the critics at Sea". The Age. Retrieved 28 June 2010. In the end, it came down to a debate between The Sea and Never Let Me Go. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Kazuo Ishiguro on Nobelprize.org , accessed 28 April 2020 ^ Furness, Hannah (4 October 2014). "Kazuo Ishiguro: My wife thought first draft of The Buried Giant was rubbish". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 October 2017. ^ Flood, Alison (16 June 2020). "Kazuo Ishiguro announces new novel, Klara and the Sun". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2020. ^ Ishiguro, Kazuo (1 March 1983). "Summer after the War". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2018. ^ Ishiguro, Kazuo (1 September 1985). "October, 1948". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2018. ^ Ishiguro, Kazuo (14 May 2001). "A Village After Dark". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 1 May 2018. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kazuo Ishiguro. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro's archive resides at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin Kazuo Ishiguro at British Council: Literature Faber and Faber page on Ishiguro Dialogue between Kazuo Ishiguro and Kenzaburo Oe List of works Hunnewell, Susannah (Spring 2008). "Kazuo Ishiguro, The Art of Fiction No. 196". The Paris Review. Spring 2008 (184). Richards, Linda (October 2000). "January Interview: Kazuo Ishiguro". Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 2005 interview with Ishiguro in Sigla Magazine 2006 Guardian Book Club podcast with Ishiguro by John Mullan 1989 "A Case of Cultural Misperception," a profile at the New York Times by Susan Chira 2005 "Living Memories," a profile at The Guardian by Nicholas Wroe NHK WORLD (December 2017). Exclusive Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture 7 December 2017 My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs v t e Works by Kazuo Ishiguro Novels A Pale View of Hills (1982) An Artist of the Floating World (1986) The Remains of the Day (1989) The Unconsoled (1995) When We Were Orphans (2000) Never Let Me Go (2005) The Buried Giant (2015) Klara and the Sun (2021) Short fiction Nocturnes (2009) Screenplays The Saddest Music in the World (2003) The White Countess (2005) Films The Remains of the Day (1993) Never Let Me Go (2010) v t e Recipients of the Booker Prize List of winners and shortlisted authors The Best of the Booker The Golden Man Booker International Booker Prize 1969– 1979 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For) 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member) 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles) 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State) 1972: John Berger (G.) 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur) 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday) 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust) 1976: David Storey (Saville) 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On) 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, the Sea) 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore) 1980s 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage) 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children) 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark) 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K) 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac) 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People) 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils) 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger) 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda) 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) 1990s 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession) 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road) 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger) 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha) 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late) 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road) 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders) 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam) 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace) 2000s 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang) 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi) 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little) 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) 2005: John Banville (The Sea) 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss) 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering) 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger) 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) 2010s 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question) 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending) 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies) 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries) 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings) 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout) 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman) 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) 2020s 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain) v t e 2017 Nobel Prize laureates Chemistry Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland) Joachim Frank (Germany, United States) Richard Henderson (United Kingdom) Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (United Kingdom) Peace (2017) International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Switzerland) Physics Rainer Weiss (United States) Barry Barish (United States) Kip Thorne (United States) Physiology or Medicine Jeffrey C. Hall (United States) Michael Rosbash (United States) Michael W. Young (United States) Economic Sciences Richard Thaler (United States) Nobel Prize recipients 1990 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 v t e Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1901–1925 1901: Sully Prudhomme 1902: Theodor Mommsen 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906: Giosuè Carducci 1907: Rudyard Kipling 1908: Rudolf Eucken 1909: Selma Lagerlöf 1910: Paul Heyse 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann 1913: Rabindranath Tagore 1914 1915: Romain Rolland 1916: Verner von Heidenstam 1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan 1918 1919: Carl Spitteler 1920: Knut Hamsun 1921: Anatole France 1922: Jacinto Benavente 1923: W. B. Yeats 1924: Władysław Reymont 1925: George Bernard Shaw 1926–1950 1926: Grazia Deledda 1927: Henri Bergson 1928: Sigrid Undset 1929: Thomas Mann 1930: Sinclair Lewis 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1932: John Galsworthy 1933: Ivan Bunin 1934: Luigi Pirandello 1935 1936: Eugene O'Neill 1937: Roger Martin du Gard 1938: Pearl S. Buck 1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944: Johannes V. Jensen 1945: Gabriela Mistral 1946: Hermann Hesse 1947: André Gide 1948: T. S. Eliot 1949: William Faulkner 1950: Bertrand Russell 1951–1975 1951: Pär Lagerkvist 1952: François Mauriac 1953: Winston Churchill 1954: Ernest Hemingway 1955: Halldór Laxness 1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez 1957: Albert Camus 1958: Boris Pasternak 1959: Salvatore Quasimodo 1960: Saint-John Perse 1961: Ivo Andrić 1962: John Steinbeck 1963: Giorgos Seferis 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre (declined award) 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov 1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs 1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias 1968: Yasunari Kawabata 1969: Samuel Beckett 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971: Pablo Neruda 1972: Heinrich Böll 1973: Patrick White 1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson 1975: Eugenio Montale 1976–2000 1976: Saul Bellow 1977: Vicente Aleixandre 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer 1979: Odysseas Elytis 1980: Czesław Miłosz 1981: Elias Canetti 1982: Gabriel García Márquez 1983: William Golding 1984: Jaroslav Seifert 1985: Claude Simon 1986: Wole Soyinka 1987: Joseph Brodsky 1988: Naguib Mahfouz 1989: Camilo José Cela 1990: Octavio Paz 1991: Nadine Gordimer 1992: Derek Walcott 1993: Toni Morrison 1994: Kenzaburō Ōe 1995: Seamus Heaney 1996: Wisława Szymborska 1997: Dario Fo 1998: José Saramago 1999: Günter Grass 2000: Gao Xingjian 2001–present 2001: V. 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