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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Name: Kazuo Ishiguro
Birth Date: November 8, 1954
Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Japan
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Kazuo Ishiguro
5987 words, approx. 20 pages
Kazuo Ishiguro's literary reputation was established by three novels published over seven years: A Pale View of Hills won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first novel of 1982; An Artist of the Floating World won the 19...
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Biography of Kazuo Ishiguro
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"When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen," novelist Kazuo Ishiguro told Linda Richards in an interview for January magazine o...


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An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his...


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