Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSLis a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative-writing course in 1980...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryJapan
literature looks exotic
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
artist literature world
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
fate people dignity
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
fiction detectives christie
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
imagination world alive
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
england links might
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
children growing-up trauma
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
interesting novelists world
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
age stories viewpoints
I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
want translations
I want my words to survive translation.
eye long childhood
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.
never-let-me-go speed you-let-me-go
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
broken-heart thinking two
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.
writing thinking literature
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.