Facts about Kazuo Ishiguro

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   Born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to England with his family at age five and was raised in Guildford, Surrey.

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   Ishiguro's 2010 novel Never Let Me Go, published 13 years after The Remains of the Day, explores the lives of human clones in dystopian England and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

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   Ishiguro's 1986 debut novel A Pale View of Hills explored themes of memory and identity through the perspective of a Japanese widow living in England.

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   After studying English at the University of Kent, Ishiguro spent two years in Calcutta during the early 1970s as a Grantham Scholar working with refugee organizations.

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   Ishiguro's 2015 novel The Buried Giant marked his first fantasy work, departing significantly from his previous realistic literary fiction focused on memory and human psychology.

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   Kazuo Ishiguro worked as a social worker in Lancashire for five years during the 1970s before becoming a full-time novelist.

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   In 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize in Literature at age 62 for his novels exploring memory and self-deception.

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   The 1989 novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro won the Booker Prize and became a bestselling work of contemporary fiction.

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