Kazuo Ishiguro

Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Date of Birth: 8 November, 1954

Ethnicity: Japanese

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short story writer. He has written the novels “A Pale View of Hills,” “An Artist of the Floating World,” “The Remains of the Day,” “The Unconsoled,” “When We Were Orphans,” “Never Let Me Go”, “The Buried Giant,” and “Klara and the Sun,” and the screenplay for the film Living (2022). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.

Kazuo was born in Nagasaki, the son of Shizuko (Michida) and Shizuo Ishiguro, a physical oceanographer, who studied ocean wave dynamics using analog computing. His family moved to Guildford, Surrey, England, U.K. when he was five, so his father could work for the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He did not visit Japan again until 1989.

He is married to Lorna Anne MacDougall, with whom he has a daughter, author Naomi Ishiguro. Kazuo became a U.K. citizen in 1983.

Source: Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000, by Barry Lewis