New Writing

The Bodleian Libraries have awarded UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro with the Bodley Medal, the Libraries’ highest honour, which is awarded by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries to individuals ‘who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active’, including literature, culture, science and communication. Kazuo (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of seven novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982), which won the Winifred Holtby Prize; An Artist of the Floating World (1986), which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Remains of the Day (1989), which won the Booker Prize; The Unconsoled (1995), which won the Cheltenham Prize; When We Were Orphans (2000), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Never Let Me Go (2005), which was also shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize, and ‘The Buried Giant’ (2015). He has also published a book of short stories, Nocturnes (2009). In 1995 he received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 2017 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.