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About Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954) is a British novelist of Japanese descent. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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“nostalgic about their collections.”
“Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.”
“If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.”
“Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly.”
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.”
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Kazuo Ishiguro on Mystery fiction
“It seemed to me quite poignant that this genre should have flourished as a kind of therapeutic reaction to the horrors of the Great War.”
Kazuo Ishiguro on Tokyo
“If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.”
Kazuo Ishiguro on Self-deception
“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
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Nobel Prize Committee on Kazuo Ishiguro
“[Kazuo Ishiguro], in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
About Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954) is a British novelist of Japanese descent. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.