Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Japan and now a British citizen, won the Man Booker Prize in 1989 for his acclaimed novel The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954, and he currently resides in London with his wife and daughter.
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, before moving to England in 1960 when his father took a position at the National Institute of Oceanography. At the age of six, Ishiguro enrolled in the grammar school for boys in Surrey. Later, he obtained his B.A. from the University of Kent in 1978, and subsequently his Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Among the odd jobs that Ishiguro held between his years of education, he...
