Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British author who was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and went to live in the south of England when he was six. He returned to live in England in 1960.

He won the Whitbread Prize in 1986 for his novel An Artist of the Floating World, and he won the Booker Prize in 1989 for his novel, The Remains of the Day.

His other novels include A Pale View of Hills, The Unconsoled, and When We Were Orphans.