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He is saying that his writing began with songwriting, and that he still thinks of his fiction in musical terms. The comparison to Leonard Cohen suggests he admired a writer-turned-songwriter style and wanted that blend of storytelling and song. He presents his stories as something expanded from the form and feeling of songs.
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About Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is known for fiction in English and for the wide recognition his work has received, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ishiguro writes across several forms, but he is best known for novels that probe memory, loss, and the fragile ties between people and the world around them. The Swedish Academy praised his work for its emotional force and for the way it reveals what lies beneath the feeling of connection.
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Music: more sayings
- “I came from a huge extended family of musicians.”Jake Epstein
- “The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step…”Chuck Palahniuk
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Books by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
1994
Never Let Me Go
2016
The Buried Giant
2016
Nocturnes
2009
Klara and the Sun
2022