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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro 1954–, English novelist, b. Nagasaki. His family left Japan in 1960 and immigrated to England, where he attended the universities of Kent (B.A., 1978) and East Anglia (M.A., 1980). Ishiguro, who began his literary career writing short stories, creates subtle, finely crafted fiction that combines precise evocations of time and place with psychologically acute character studies. With an identity neither completely English nor fully Japanese, he has characterized himself as an international novelist. His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Prize), have Japanese narrators and settings. His best-known novel, The Remains of the Day (1989, Booker Prize; film 1993), has a quintessentially English protagonist and setting: an emotionally repressed, self-deceiving, and politically naive butler serving in an aristocratic country household between the two World Wars. His later novels are The Unconsoled (1995), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005); his later short stories include Nocturnes (2009). He also has written television dramas.
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"Kazuo Ishiguro." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Kazuo Ishiguro." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-IshiguroK.html "Kazuo Ishiguro." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-IshiguroK.html |
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Ishiguro, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954– ), novelist, born in Nagasaki but came to England in 1960 and studied at the universities of Kent and East Anglia. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), about a Japanese widow living in England haunted by memories of her daughter's suicide, was followed by An Artist of the Floating World (1986), the story of an ageing Japanese artist who looks back on his life in the aftermath of the Second World War. He came to major prominence with The Remains of the Day (1989), a subtle and moving story of an ageing butler's memories of his life in service which won the Booker Prize and was subsequently made into a successful film. The Unconsoled (1995), written on a much larger scale than his previous novels, is set in contemporary Europe. When We Were Orphans (2000), set in England and China between the Wars, is a tale of one man's quest to find his parents who disappeared when he was a child living in Shanghai.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ishiguro, Kazuo." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ishiguro, Kazuo." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-IshiguroKazuo.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ishiguro, Kazuo." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-IshiguroKazuo.html |
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Ishiguro, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954– ) Japanese novelist, resident in the UK since 1960. His early novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986), are set in Japan. The Remains of the Day (1989) won the Booker Prize. Other novels include The Unconsoled (1995) and When We Were Orphans (2000).
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"Ishiguro, Kazuo." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Ishiguro, Kazuo." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-IshiguroKazuo.html "Ishiguro, Kazuo." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-IshiguroKazuo.html |
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