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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…)

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ISBN      9780571224111
Publisher     Faber and Faber
Publication Date     3/3/2005
Format     Hardcover (216×144mm)
Language     English

Never Let Me Go (2005) is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best fiction novel of 2005 and included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[1] It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. (continue reading…)