Revisiting Kazuo Ishiguro’s backstory and his story books

A brief bio on the author and a round-up of his books.

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at Britain’s National Institute of Oceanography (now the National Oceanography Centre). Ishiguro was educated at a boys’ school in Surrey, before reading English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, from which he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 1978. (In between school and uni, he reportedly worked as a “grouse-beater” for Britain’s Queen Mother at Balmoral Castle!)