Have you read any of Kazuo Ishiguro's books?
"An Ishiguro story is like a mix of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka. This may sound odd. Strictly speaking, it should be impossible. But Ishiguro shows that it works. It works well indeed. Herein lies much of his greatness."
This is how Ishiguro's literature was described during the 2017 Nobel Prize award ceremony.
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL is an English novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world.
Born: 8 November 1954 (age 65 years), Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
Spouse: Lorna MacDougall (m. 1986)
Movies: Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, more
Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, Costa Book of the Year, more
Grateful thanks to Nobel Prize, Wikipedia and Google.
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