<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0 - 571 - 31503 - 1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> Nocturnes </Td> </Tr> <P> The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by Nobel Prize - winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015 . </P> <P> The book was nominated for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and the 2016 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature . It was also placed sixth in the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel . The book has been translated into French, German, Spanish and Italian as Le géant enfoui, Der begrabene Riese, El gigante enterrado and Il gigante sepolto respectively . </P>

Who is the author of the buried giant