Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒一雄; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative-writing course in 1980.Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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- http://7thavenueproject.com/post/116315772335/kazuo-ishiguro-interview-buried-giant
- http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1416858,00.html
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DC1239F93BA15753C1A96F948260
- http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/default.htm
- http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/06/02/2588484.htm
- http://www.faber.co.uk/author/kazuo-ishiguro
- http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/ishiguro.html
- http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/05/21/010521fi_fiction?printable=true
- http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06532/kazuo-ishiguro
- http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/04/04/sigla-kazuo-ishiguro-interview