Kazuo Ishiguro

生年: November 08, 1954 – Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

ソーシャルリンク:

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist and screenwriter whose work explores memory, loss, identity, and moral ambiguity. Best known for The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, he won the 1989 Booker Prize and the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, securing major international recognition.

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Good writing and good reading will break down barriers
-Nobel Lecture
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Do you really want to write or do you want to be a writer?
-Nobel Prize Interview Transcript
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The emotion aroused is a larger one, a unifying one
-Nobel Banquet Speech
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Would the fictional world become more real than the world outside?
-Sir Kazuo Ishiguro on Perseverance
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It was the first time I was aware of someone creating art that embraces the idea of getting old
-TIME Interview: Klara and the Sun
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When you go from book to film, that’s a fireside moment
-AP Interview: A Pale View of Hills

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