Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan) moved with his family to England in 1960, when he was a young child, after his oceanographer father Shizuo Ishiguro was employed by the British government. Kazuo Ishiguro 's Japanese parents believed that they would soon return to Japan and prepared their son to resume life in his native land. However, they stayed in Britain, and Ishiguro grew up straddling two cultures, the Japan of his parents and his adopted country England. web.cocc.edu
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey. Afterwards he worked as a grous www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth52
Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Sinad Gleeson about The Booker prize, unreliable narrators and a dystopian vision of medical science in his new book, Never Let Me Go. www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/04/04/sigla-kazuo-ishigur...
He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the British Empire) in 1995 for literature. Grew up in Guildford, Surrey, where he attracted attention in the neighborhood by being the only Japanese child. In his teens he wanted to be a rock star - in fact, in 1973, www.imdb.com/name/nm0410958/
