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<img src=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Kazuo_Ishiguro_by_Kubik.JPG/200px-Kazuo_Ishiguro_by_Kubik.JPG” alt=”Kazuo Ishiguro, a British novelist.” vspace=”2″ width=”200″ align=”left” border=”1″ height=”267″ hspace=”2″ />Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ (Kazuo Ishiguro) or 石黒 一雄 (Ishiguro Kazuo); born November 8, 1954) is a British novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, his family moving to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor’s degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master’s from the University of East Anglia’s creative writing course in 1980. He became a British subject in 1982.[1] He now lives in London with his wife Lorna MacDougall and daughter Naomi.

<strong>Early life</strong>
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on 8 November, 1954, the son of Shigeo Ishiguro, an oceanographer, and his wife Shizuko. In 1960 his family, including his two sisters, moved to Guildford, Surrey so that his father could work on oil development in the North Sea. He attended Stoughton Primary School and then Woking County Grammar School in Surrey. After finishing school he took a ‘gap year’ and travelled through America and Canada, whilst writing a journal and sending demo tapes to record companies.

in 1974 he began studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and he graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in English and Philosophy. After spending a year writing fiction, he resumed his studies at the University of East Anglia where he gained a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. (continue reading…)