The style & technique of KAZUO ISHIGURO

Novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer, he has been nominated four times for the Man Booker Prize and won it in 1989 for The Remains of the Day (subsequently made into a hugely successful film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson). He’s among the small number of authors who are both critically praised and commercially successful; in 2017 Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Beginnings

Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, Ishiguro moved to Surrey with his Japanese parents when he was five years old. He went to Woking County Grammar School and then took a gap year backpacking through Canada, the United States and Europe. As a teenager he played music, watched a lot of films and barely read anything. He started writing songs and had hopes of becoming a singer or a rock star. It wasn’t until his early twenties, when he suddenly discovered Dostoevsky and Charlotte Brontë, that books came