Masayo ishiguro biography for kids

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a British-Japanese novelist.

Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Ishiguro moved to England in 1960 when his father took a position at the National Institute of Oceanography.

At the age of six, Ishiguro enrolled in the grammar school for boys in Surrey. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Kent and a master's in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.

Ishiguro came under the mentorship of famed writer Angela Carter and, in 1981, published a collection of short stories, followed in 1982 by his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, about a Japanese widow in England who reflects on the destruction of Nagasaki in WWII.

Ishiguro's second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, also explored Japanese reactions to World War II through a first-person narrator. The Remains of the Day, his third novel, was published in 1989 and won the Booker Prize, and was also adapted into an acclaimed fi