Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Laureate and Booker-winning author of The Remains of the Day, graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing MA in 1980. In 2013 he returned to UEA to deliver a public lecture and the following morning gave a masterclass to current MA students on the technicalities of writing. Here, in a feature taken from the […]
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Kazuo Ishiguro shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke Award
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 […]
Kazuo Ishiguro shortlisted for Indie Book Awards
Klara and the Sun, the latest novel by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro, has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the 2022 Indie Book Awards, which are organised by the Bookseller’s Association. It was published by Faber & Faber last year. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author […]
Kazuo Ishiguro nominated for Dublin Literary Award
Klara and the Sun, the latest novel by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro, has been longlisted for this year’s International Dublin Literary Award. 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 […]
Kazuo Ishiguro longlisted for Booker Prize
Klara and the Sun by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro has been longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. It was published by Faber & Faber earlier this year. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of seven other novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982), which won the Winifred Holtby Prize; An […]
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun is the new novel by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro and is published by Faber & Faber this week. Kazuo 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 […]
CW50 brochure featuring Kazuo Ishiguro and Tsitsi Dangarembga
The UEA Creative Writing programme is fifty years old. During the academic year 2020-21 we will celebrate the past, interrogate the present and spark ideas about the future as we mark five decades as a global leader in creative writing. With a Foreword by UEA alumnus, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, the brochure below describes some of […]
