The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki and moved to Britain as a small child. Having studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, he quickly established himself as one of the major writers of his generation, being listed by Granta among the best young British novelists in 1983. After two early novels, both with Japanese settings or characters, he won the Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day in 1989. His later work has often drawn on science fiction ideas and historical settings; in total four novels have been nominated for the Booker. In 2017 Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 2023 his screenplay for the film Living was nominated for an Academy Award.
Daniel Kehlmann is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter, born in Munich and raised in Vienna. He now lives in Berlin and New York City, where he teaches at NYU. His novels include Measuring the World and Tyll; all have been extraordinary bestsellers in Germany, and have won many prizes. Tyll was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020 and is being adapted for TV by Netflix.