Kazuo Ishiguro

Known for Writing

Kazuo Ishiguro's portrait

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Birthday: November 08, 1954

Place of birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Kazuo 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.

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