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Kazuo Ishiguro

8 November 1954 – present

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan, who moved to England as a child. His novels, among them The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, are known for restrained first-person narrators and themes of memory and self-deception. He won the Booker Prize in 1989 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.

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Born in Nagasaki, Japan
8 November 1954
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Family moved to England
1960

Settled in Guildford, Surrey, after his father took a post with the National Institute of Oceanography.

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Graduated from the University of Kent
1978

Took a degree in English and philosophy.

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Completed a master's degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia
1980

Studied on the course associated with Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.

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Published his first novel, A Pale View of Hills
1982
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Married Lorna MacDougall
1986
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Won the Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
1989
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Published Never Let Me Go
2005

The novel was later adapted for film and television.

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
2017

Cited for novels of great emotional force about the illusory sense of connection with the world.

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Published Klara and the Sun
2021
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