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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1981-present
Notable works	The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to England in 1960 with his family. Ishiguro got a Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia in 1980. He has been a British citizen since 1982

Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated fiction writers in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, including winning the 1989 prize for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times put Ishiguro on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Just Recently, his novel Never Let Me Go has been adapted to film.

Personal life

Ishiguro got married in 1986. he lives in London with his wife and daughter Naomi.

Works

Novels

• A Pale View of Hills (1982)
• An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
• The Remains of the Day (1989)
• The Unconsoled (1995)
• When We Were Orphans (2000)
• Never Let Me Go (2005)

Screenplays

• A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (Original Screenplay for Channel 4) (1984)
• The Gourmet (Original Screenplay for the BBC; the script was later published in Granta (1987)
• The Saddest Music in the World (Original Story) (2003)
• The White Countess (Original Screenplay) (2005)

Short fiction

• Three short stories in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981): ‘A Strange and Sometimes Sadness’, ‘Waiting for J’ and ‘Getting Poisoned’
• A Family Supper - short story first published in 1982
• Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009)

Film adaptations

• The Remains of the Day, directed by James Ivory in 1993
• Never Let Me Go, directed by Mark Romanek in 2010

External links

• Kazuo Ishiguro at British Council: Literature
• Faber and Faber page on Ishiguro
• VIDEO Kazuo Ishiguro talks about writing and music at the 2009 Sydney Writers Festival on ABC Fora
• National Portrait Gallery portrait by Peter Edwards