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2018/ Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, OBE FRSA FRSL (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to the UK in 1960 when he was five.

 

 

Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his master’s from the University of East Anglia’s creative writing course in 1980.