Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, was born on November 8, 1954, and moved 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. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Kent in 1978, and received his Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Ishiguro held many odd jobs between his years of education: he was employed as a community worker in Glasgow, as a social worker in London, and even as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral. Because of his writing prowess, however, Ishiguro came under the mentorship of famed...
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