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Living is a film directed by Oliver Hermanus with a screenplay by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, which was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Set in 1950s London, Bill Nighy plays a hardworking civil servant who reflects on his life while facing a fatal illness.
In this Knopf video, Kazuo Ishiguro, who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, speaks about what he calls “double-cross metaphors” and how “tilting the reality of the world just a little bit” in his stories provides inspiration. For more Ishiguro, read “Never Let Me Go: A Profile of Kazuo Ishiguro” by John Freeman from the May/June 2005 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“Reading during lockdown created a really powerful sense of connection with the books.” In this video, Maya Jasanoff, chair of the judges for the 2021 Booker Prize, speaks about the “deliberate quality” of the thirteen longlisted titles, which include Second Place by Rachel Cusk, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, and Bewilderment by Richard Powers.
“I hadn’t really planned this to be narrated by an AI creature,” says Kazuo Ishiguro answering questions from readers about his latest novel, Klara and the Sun (Knopf, 2021), in this video for the Get Lit virtual book club series with host of WNYC’s All Of It Alison Stewart.
This book trailer reveals the cover for Kazuo Ishiguro’s anticipated novel Klara and the Sun, forthcoming in March from Knopf. The novel explores the world of an “Artificial Friend” named Klara who observes potential customers in the hopes that one day she will be taken home by someone.
“Like literature, my own field, the Nobel Prize is an idea that, in times like these, helps us to think beyond our dividing walls...” In this video, Kazuo Ishiguro delivers a heartfelt speech to accept the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm.
In this forthcoming novel from the Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, a couple set off on a journey to find a son they have not seen in years. The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015) is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go is now playing in select theaters. Poets & Writers Magazine profiled the author when the book was published by Knopf in 2005.
