Ishiguro,Kazuo

Abstract

The Anglo‐Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is perhaps best known for his protagonists who devote themselves completely to a chosen professional role – as artist, butler, pianist, or detective – and whose first‐person, confessional narratives paradoxically conceal more than they reveal about their past lives. Born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954, Ishiguro moved with his family to Britain in 1960, and was educated in Surrey, at Stoughton Primary School and Woking County Grammar School. He later read English and philosophy at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, graduating in 1978, and worked both as a community worker and a residential social worker in Glasgow and London. He then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia under the guidance of Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.