In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been nominated for Great Britain’s most prestigious literary prize, the Booker, four times, and won it in 1989 for The Remains of the Day. Ishigura enjoyed critical acclaim starting early in his career, and won the Whitbread award for his second novel, An Artist of the Floating World. Ishiguro received a masters at the University of East Anglia, where Angela Carter became an early mentor and he studied with Malcolm Bradbury. As a teen, he hoped to become a rock musician. Ishiguro was educated at a boys school in Surrey, and attended the University of Kent. Ishiguro did not visit Japan again until he was in his thirties. He moved with his parents to Guildford in Southern England in 1960 when his father was recruited to work as a marine biologist for the British National Institute of Oceanography. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954.
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