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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Born
in Nagasaki, Japan
Genre
Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Influences
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Marcel Proust, ...more

Member Since
January 2021


Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.

His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Gia ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,952,010 ratings · 187,477 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors
Never Let Me Go
3.85 avg rating — 846,198 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
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Klara and the Sun
3.74 avg rating — 429,825 ratings — published 2021 — 160 editions
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The Remains of the Day
4.14 avg rating — 357,008 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions
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The Buried Giant
3.59 avg rating — 121,127 ratings — published 2015 — 160 editions
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An Artist of the Floating W...
3.78 avg rating — 45,469 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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When We Were Orphans
3.54 avg rating — 47,316 ratings — published 2000 — 173 editions
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A Pale View of Hills
3.80 avg rating — 43,123 ratings — published 1982 — 146 editions
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of ...
3.51 avg rating — 32,456 ratings — published 2009 — 144 editions
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The Unconsoled
3.59 avg rating — 18,196 ratings — published 1995 — 134 editions
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Come Rain or Come Shine
3.64 avg rating — 3,693 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro
tags: inspirational, missed-chances
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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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January 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  47 votes, 19.3%

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