The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain is a book of song lyrics written by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro for jazz singer Stacey Kent and was published by Faber last week. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of eight 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, The Buried Giant (2015); and Klara and the Sun (2021). 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.