Klara and the Sun, the latest novel by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro, has been shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. It was published by Faber & Faber last year. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of seven previous 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. The winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award will be announced on 26 October.
Kazuo Ishiguro shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke Award
