In 1986 he married Lorna Anne MacDougall; they have a daughter, Naomi, who was born in 1992. He has received honorary degrees from both the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia. In 1995 the Order of the British Empire was conferred on him for "services to literature."
The quantity of Ishiguro's output as a writer has always been modest. When, for example, the editors of Esquire magazine wanted to run a short story by the author for their March 1990 issue, following the success of The Remains of the Day, they eventually settled for "A Family Supper," a seven- year-old piece that had already been published twice before. Ishiguro first appeared in print in the Faber and Faber anthology Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers, (1981) with three stories that were produced for his creative-writing degree. The longest of these, "A Strange and Sometimes Sadness," was developed into his first novel, A Pale View of Hills. During the 1980s Ishiguro completed three relatively short novels--a book every three or four years, each somewhat longer than the previous one.
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