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Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- )
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Biography
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, and moved to Britain around the age of five or six. He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of East Anglia where he studied creative writing. He is the author of The Remains of the Day, an international best-seller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film, as well as A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, and The Unconsoled. In fact, Ishiguro has received many honors and awards including an Order of the British Empire for service to literature in 1995, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. His work is known internationally and has been translated into 28 languages. He currently lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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Works
When We Were Orphans | Faber and Faber, 2000
The Unconsoled | Faber and Faber, 1995
The Remains of the Day | Faber and Faber, 1989
An Artist of the Floating World | Faber and Faber, 1986
A Pale View of Hills | Faber and Faber, 1982
Introductions 7: Stories by New Writers (contributor) | Faber and Faber, 1981
Never Let Me Go | Faber and Faber
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