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	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro
		Ishiguro, no great reader at this stage, says virtually the only contemporary writers he was aware of were Margaret Drabble and Edna O'Brien, although he later discovered, and was influenced by, other work from the period by VS Naipaul and JG Farrell.
		Ishiguro's debut was narrated by a Japanese widow living in England, looking back over her life in post-war Nagasaki in the light of her daughter's recent suicide.
		Ishiguro eventually gave up his day job late in 1982 when he was approached to write a screenplay for the BBC, The Gourmet, and A Profile of J Arthur Mason for Channel 4, which prefigured The Remains of the Day in featuring a butler.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1416858,00.html (3920 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro & A Pale View of Hills
		Ishiguro writes in the first person, but from the beginning there are cracks in Christopher's carefully restrained prose, suggestions that his version of the world may not be the most reliable.
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954 and moved with his parents to Guilford, Surrey, in 1960, where his father, an oceanographer, was to be temporarily employed by the British government.
		Ishiguro has said that his initial interest in writing fiction was as a way of preserving memories of Japan that were beginning to fade, and he attributes his meteoric rise, in part, to his Japanese name and the Japanese subject matter in his first two novels.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/eng339/coursepack/Ishiguro.htm (4439 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on November 8, 1954 and moved to Britain in 1960.
		Ishiguro attended the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1978, where he received a B.A. with honors, and the University of East Anglia in 1980, where he received a M.A. In 1983, he won the Winifred Award from Royal Society of Literature.
		With his breathtaking command of the language, Ishiguro subtly evokes the ache of his protagonists' self-reproach even as they deny on the surface the motives and misjudgments buried in their pasts.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/ishiguro_kazuo.htm (450 words)

	BookPage Interview September 2000: Kazuo Ishiguro
		Early 20th century detective novels served as the inspiration for the masterful new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author best known for his portrait of a loyal butler in The Remains of the Day.
		Ishiguro often uses an unreliable narrator in his novels; he says he is simply drawn to this kind of writing.
		Ishiguro says he does occasionally wonder if the growing demand for public literary events presents a kind of threat to literary culture and to the subjective pleasures of reading.
	www.bookpage.com /0009bp/kazuo_ishiguro.html (960 words)

	Interview \| Kazuo Ishiguro
		Ishiguro feels that in the early 1980s when he was arriving on the scene, publishers in Great Britain had, "a great hunger for this kind of new internationalism.
		Ishiguro, whose friends, he says, call him "Ish," attended the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia.
		Kazuo Ishiguro lives in London with his wife Lorna and their 8-year-old daughter Naomi.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/ishiguro.html (4520 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Ishiguro, Kazuo
		The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro's understated story of an agonisingly reserved butler and his unspoken love for the housekeeper of the stately home in which he serves is the best-known of his works and perhaps the most accessible.
		Ishiguro's narrative technique and whimsical, figurative language have led critics to liken him to Salman Rushdie, while The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans have been seen as updated, more pessimistic versions of Jane Austen's comedies of manners.
		Ishiguro himself, however, has a very different conception of his influences, counting Dostoevsky and Proust as favourites and rejecting parallels with Austen and Henry James.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-217,00.html (379 words)

	Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
		Ishiguro is a master of tone, and Kath's narrative is convincing, from her (admittedly very unusual) point of view.
		Ishiguro nicely presents this sense of otherness: like others who live in isolated circumstances, with limited exposure to the world at large, Kath and her friends seem slightly retarded or off -- not less intelligent (or manipulative) than 'normal' human beings, but strangers in a strange world that they don't quite fit in.
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan in 1954 and moved to Great Britain when he was five.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/ishigk/neverlmg.htm (2460 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954.
		Ishiguro's third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), is set in post-war England, and tells the story of an elderly English butler confronting disillusionment as he recalls a life spent in service, memories viewed against a backdrop of war and the rise of Fascism.
		Kazuo Ishiguro's fifth novel, When We Were Orphans (2000), is set in Shanghai in the early part of the twentieth century, and is narrated by a private detective investigating his parents' disappearance in the city some 20 years earlier.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth52 (1997 words)

	QLRS - Essays : Confucianism in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled \| Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki where he lived until he was six years old.
		Ishiguro’s first two novels are set in Japan where the plot conflicts arise from clashes among the systems of thought that comprise Japanese culture: Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism.
		Kazuo Ishiguro is best known for his third novel, The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize for 1989 and, with the help of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Anthony Hopkins, was made into a hit movie in 1993.
	www.qlrs.com /essay.asp?id=394 (3584 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro Biography
		Author Kazuo Ishiguro was born on 8 November 1954.
		Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature.
		""Kazuo Ishiguro writes like an alien," declared Caroline Moore in the Sunday Telegraph, and his sixth novel Never Let Me Go struck her as "a cross between The Caretaker and Arthur C Clarke".
	www.biogs.com /booker/ishiguro.html (381 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when - October 27, 2000
		As with Ishiguro's previous novels, "Orphans" involves the nostalgic recollections of backward-looking narrator whose obfuscative memory has passed from the selective to the repressive.
		Ishiguro dabs on the irony with a deft brush, as his pathetic, insufferably stiff-upper-lipped narrator cannot help but harping on his past cases -- none of which is ever truly solved.
		Kazuo Ishiguro likes the writing life, though he runs that life just as if he were working in an office.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro (1286 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro Interview @ Spoiled Ink
		In this respect Ishiguro might be considered they doyen of the unreliable narrator, for his characters do not provide the reader with a stable viewpoint, one measurable by a contextual world, but a series of psychological interiors, beholden only to their own logic.
		Ishiguro may be seen as engaging in playful postmodern self-referentiality here - of course memory, like novel writing, is a creative process - but this playfulness is never engaged for its own sake.
		Ishiguro’s understated prose just about keeps the lid on the action, as Ryder makes temporality-defying exits from broom cupboards into cocktail parties and is beset upon by individuals who unload interminable details upon him and may either be strangers, his distant relatives, or conceivably even alternate versions of himself.
	www.spoiledink.com /FEATURES/author_interviews_012.php (2142 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ Kazuo Ishiguro, originally 石黒一雄 Ishiguro Kazuo, born November 8, 1954) is a British author of Japanese origin.
		Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia in 1980.
		Thus Ishiguro ends many of his novels on a note of melancholic resignation, whereby his characters accept their past and who they have become, and find comfort in that realization by a relief from mental anguish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro (653 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ishiguro's meticulously crafted novels peel layer after layer off the conventions that rule life both in his adopted land of Britain and his homeland of Japan.
		The novel unfolds much later, when the middle-aged narrator has just lost a daughter; her memories are an excursion into the origins of this disaster, into the way conventions have limited her ability to comprehend catastrophe.
		Ishiguro has an uncanny ability to hone in on the subtle yet profound yearnings of "everyman." This essay focuses on his novel "The Unconsoled," whose main character is a pianist; significantly, Ishiguro didn’t start writing the book until his dreams of being a pianist himself had crumbled.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1062 (660 words)

	Amazon.com: Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)): Books: Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ishiguro conveys with exquisite sensitivity the emotional texture of the threesome's relationship, their bonds of personal loyalty that overcome fractures of trust, the palpable boundaries of hope, and the human capacity for forgiveness.
		Ishiguro creates a similar feeling, using the triteness of Kathy H.'s reminiscences and Miss Lucy's behaviors and rationalizations to illustrate the banality of their own peculiar form of evil: science practiced for its own sake, without the application of moral standards.
		Ishiguro's richly textured description of the relationship among the three supplies all the details without confronting the larger issues.
	www.amazon.com /Never-Let-Go-Alex-Awards/dp/1400043395 (2672 words)

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		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8
		Ishiguro was schooled at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of East Anglia.
		Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of four novels.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1828/whoishe.htm (430 words)

	authortrek.com - Kazuo Ishiguro page Kazuo Ishiguro bibliography
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954.
		Kazuo Ishiguro has also written a number of screenplays: “A Profile of Arthur J. Mason” in 1984 and “The Gourmet” in 1986 (both for Channel 4), and “The Saddest Music in the World” (2003), the movie of which starred Isabella Rossellini.
		Ishiguro’s accidental opium slur – about the court case that meant that Kazuo Ishiguro had to change the name of a company he mentions in “When we were Orphans”;
	www.authortrek.com /kazuo_ishiguro_page.html (1065 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro's creepy clones. - By Margaret Atwood - Slate Magazine
		Never Let Me Go is the sixth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Booker Prize in 1989 for his chilling rendition of a bootlickingly devoted but morally blank English butler, The Remains of the Day.
		Ishiguro likes to experiment with literary hybrids, to hijack popular forms for his own ends, and to set his novels against tenebrous historical backdrops; thus When We Were Orphans mixes the Boys' Own Adventure with the '30s detective story while taking a whole new slice out of World War II.
		Ishiguro's tone is perfect: Kathy is intelligent but nothing extraordinary, and she prattles on in the obsessive manner touchy girls have, going back over past conversations and registering every comment and twitch and crush and put-down and cold shoulder and gang-up and spat.
	www.slate.com /id/2116040 (1783 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Discuss Kazuo Ishiguro in our KAZUO ISHIGURO FORUM dedicated to his life and art.
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, and moved to Britain around the age of five or six.
		In fact, Ishiguro has received many honors and awards including an Order of the British Empire for service to literature in 1995, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
	onetimesone.com /zine/words/authors/i/ishigurokazuo.php (182 words)

	NPR : Kazuo Ishiguro: 'Never Let Me Go'
		Kazuo Ishiguro first rose to fame with his novel Remains of the Day, which was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins.
		Day to Day, May 4, 2005 · Never Let Me Go is the sixth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for The Remains of the Day -- a book of quiet desperation in a British household, brought to life on the screen by actor Anthony Hopkins.
		The author, born to Japanese parents in Great Britain, talks with Karen Grigsby Bates about his latest work, praised by critics as a deceptively simple tale set in a private school in the English countryside, where nothing is as it seems and the horrible truth is slowly revealed.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629918 (1215 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro - Palimpsest
		It sets the scene finely for Ishiguro's career: words like "enigma" and "elliptical" appear in the reviews and rightly so, because Ishiguro will never say what he means when he can hint at it and leave it for the reader to decide.
		And here is Ishiguro in miniature: the dwelling on the past, the sense of guilt or obligation ("some selfish desire"), the cool calm prose (always hiding a ruffle of turbulent emotions) and the combination of Japanese reticence and English, well, reticence.
		Ishiguro himself was born in Nagasaki but moved to England at the age of 5.
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=692 (2872 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro's Life and Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1960.
		Ishiguro attended the University of Kent at Canterbgury and the University of East Anglia.
		Characteristically, Ishiguro tells the story without once mentioning the Bomb, just as the Suez Crisis of 1956 silently stands behind The Remains of the Day as the novel's present time setting.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/uk/ishiguro/kibio.html (299 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan but in 1960 his family emigrated to Britain where he attended University of Kent in East Anglia where he studied creative writing.
		Ishiguro is mainly interested in depths of characters' consciousness and their realisation of responsibility for one's deeds and actions.
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	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Ishiguro (600 words)

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	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1828/Kazuo_Ishiguro.htm (250 words)

	Powell's Books - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
		Ishiguro's prose has never failed to dazzle me, and this novel is certainly no exception.
		Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival.
		Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of five previous novels, including The Remains of the Day which won the Booker Prize and became an international best seller.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1400043395-0 (1056 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro with F. X. Feeney
		What distinguishes Ishiguro's novels is that his characters, although intelligent and perceptive, sometimes choose not to see what's directly in front of them, and the reader is drawn into this denial, and makes the same choices as the characters.
		ISHIGURO: It's not the issue of the book, no. I've often tried to figure out what my relationship to my characters is. I think that I tend to work more from searching inside myself for little impulses or tendencies that might not even be noticeable from the outside.
		ISHIGURO: I think these days, I'm caring less and less what's really happening "out there." You said there that at times you wondered whether the character is deluded — perhaps he has lost touch with reality altogether.
	www.writersblocpresents.com /archives/ishiguro/ishiguro.htm (10564 words)

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