Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and is a British writer of Japanese origin. He moved to the United Kingdom with his family in 1960. He studied English and philosophy at the University of Kent and later attended the Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia. Before beginning his writing career, he worked, among other jobs, as an assistant to the Queen Mother and as a social worker. His best-known novels include “The Remains of the Day,” “Never Let Me Go,” and “The Buried Giant.” He received the Booker Prize in 1989 for “The Remains of the Day” and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.