

You hear the rumbling thunder coming towards you, often not striking. “It’s the opposite to the Booker prize, where there’s a longlist and then a shortlist. I might have to help him out.”īack home, Kazuo Ishiguro was having a late breakfast when his agent called. “My husband has just won the Nobel prize for literature.

“I’m sorry, I’m going to have to stop this,” she said to the waiting hairdresser. She was sitting in a Hampstead salon, not far from Golders Green in London, where they have lived for many years, all gowned up, and glanced at her phone. After weeks of discussion, the author’s wife, Lorna, had finally decided to change her hair colour. F or the Ishiguro household, 5 October 2017 was a big day.
