Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) is a British novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (2017), known for novels such as The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go that blend memory, identity, and moral complexity. His work spans literary fiction with elements of historical and speculative settings.
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- Born in
- Nagasaki
- Educated at
- University of KentWoking County Grammar School for BoysUniversity of East Anglia
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of the Rising Sun🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Costa Book Awards🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature
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1954
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