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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
5,987 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...
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Biography of Kazuo Ishiguro
4,654 words, approx. 16 pages
 "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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Kazuo Ishiguro Information
958 words, approx. 3 pages
 Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954) is a Japan-born British novelist. Born in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University...



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 The New York Observer
An Overcast of Dank Suspense Fades Into Science Fiction
4/3/2005: 1,198 words, approx. 4 pages Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Alfred A. Knopf, 288 pages, $24.In prose as bland as institutional pudding, Kazuo Ishiguro has compiled an unsettling horror story. It's so constructed, or rigged, that it's only in the last 20 or so pages (with a rather...
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 The New York Observer
Literary Heavyweights Take Swing: McEwan, Foer, Ishiguro, Gray
3/6/2005: 737 words, approx. 3 pages 'Tis the season for budding talent-just ask Jonathan Safran Foer, whose second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin), can't be far off and won't be quietly received: The adoring profile in the Feb. 27 New York Times Magazine raised the curtain on a...



Literary Criticism
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Interview by Kazuo Ishiguro with Allan Vorda and Kim Herzinger
11,384 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the following interview, which was conducted on April 2, 1990, Ishiguro discusses Japanese and British culture, perceptions of himself in each country, and how these perceptions have helped and hindered his career as a writer. Questions are posed by Vorda unless otherwise noted.
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Interview by Kazuo Ishiguro with Gregory Mason
5,205 words, approx. 17 pages
 In the interview below, which was conducted on December 8, 1986, Ishiguro discusses Japanese and Western influences on his writing, his characters, and the writing process in his first two novels.
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Critical Review by Gabriele Annan
3,124 words, approx. 10 pages
 In the review below, Annan argues that in Ishiguro's first three novels he has brilliantly portrayed characters who are unable to see their own faults, evoking condemnation and pity.


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