Nobel Prize-winning novelist
Japanese-born British novelist. He is the 1989 Man Booker Prize-winner for Remains of the Day and the 2017 Nobel Prize Laureate for literature.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Bookworm
Kazuo Ishiguro We sample 25 years of Bookworm conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Prize Laureate for literature.
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Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro starts the interview about his new book as a look at the concept of societal memory.
Bookworm
Kazou Ishiguro: three novels The Remains of the Day; A Pale View of the Hills; An Artist of the Floating World
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