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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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Memory: more sayings
- “Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good…”Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.”Téa Obreht
- “What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting alon…”Roger Angell
More Writing quotes
- “Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comed…”Ronny Chieng
- “Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously try…”Mary Karr
- “At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was…”Elizabeth McCracken
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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