Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954 and moved with his parents to Guilford, Surrey, in 1960, where his father, an oceanographer, was to be temporarily employed by the British government. Though the family left with the expectation of returning to Japan after a year or two, the assignment was repeatedly renewed, until they found themselves settled in England permanently, and Ishiguro's first trip back to Japan came only in 1989.
Ishiguro was educated at the Woking County Grammar School for Boys in Surrey, then studied American literature at the University of Kent, taking an honors degree in English and philosophy in 1978. He found employment as a social worker, first in Glasgow and, after graduating from Kent, in London. While working in London, Ishiguro pursued an interest in fiction by enrolling in the creative- writing program at the University of East Anglia, where he received an M.A. in 1980. Ishiguro continued as a social worker until 1983, a year after the publication of his first novel, when he found he could support himself as a writer of television scripts, and fiction.
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