Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist and screenwriter renowned for his deeply introspective fiction about memory, identity, regret, and the ways people reshape the past. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, he moved to England with his family at age five and later studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His best-known novels include The Remains of the Day, which won the 1989 Booker Prize, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun. Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 and was knighted in 2018 for services to literature.