Kazuo Ishiguro Interviewed by Richard Ovenden

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his life and work, in conversation with Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden, and receives the Bodley Medal – awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active including literature, culture, science and communication.

Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature when the Swedish Academy described him as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.  He has been nominated for the Booker Prize four times, winning it once for The Remains of the Day, and has won many other domestic and international literary prizes. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1,000,000 copies and been turned into highly acclaimed films. Altogether, he has written seven novels, including his most recent The Buried Giant, and his work has been translated into more than 40 languages.

Following this event, Ishiguro will be presented with the Bodley Medal, the highest honour of the Bodleian Libraries. Previous recipients include Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel, Nicholas Hytner, Ian McEwan, Professor Mary Beard, William Boyd and Claire Tomalin.

Presented by the Bodleian Libraries.