Kazuo Ishiguro
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having be
Ishiguro in 2025
Ishiguro (front) with the cast of the Never Let Me Go film in 2010
Kazuo Ishiguro at the press conference in Stockholm 6 December 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro with the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius
An Artist of the Floating World is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how h
Kazuo Ishiguro
…Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their mournful tone. He has since explored themes more typically associated with science…
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