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Known For

Kazuo Ishiguro is known for:

  • Never Let Me Go
    As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
  • The Remains of the Day
    A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
  • The White Countess
    Iin 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

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Biography

Kazoo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist. Born in Nagasaki, his family moved to England when he was five. He won the Man Booker Prize in 1989 for 'The Remains of the Day'. In 2017 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.