Birth of Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro was born on 8 November 1954 in Nagasaki. A British novelist of Japanese birth, Ishiguro moved to England as a child and wrote novels known for restrained prose and themes of memory, regret and self-deception. His works include A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize and was adapted into a film, and Never Let Me Go, a dystopian story of cloned children. His later novels include The Buried Giant and Klara and the Sun. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, and he has also written screenplays and song lyrics.

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