Ishiguro

[ish-ee-goor-oh]

noun

1. Kazuo born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.

Ishiguro

/ ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊrəʊ /

noun

1. Kazuo (kætˈzuːəʊ). born 1954, British novelist, born in Japan. His novels include An Artist of the Floating World (1986), the Booker-prizewinning The Remains of the Day (1989), and Never Let Me Go (2005)

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Mr Ishiguro pointed the BBC to an earlier statement in which he wrote, "why is it just and fair - why is it sensible - to alter our time-honoured copyright laws to advantage mammoth corporations at the expense of individual writers, musicians, film-makers and artists?"

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As Ishiguro slowly reveals, the trio are unknowing participants in a nightmarish government scientific and social program.

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The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.

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Rarer still, the novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is made a Companion of Honour, a select group which is limited to 65 people at any one time.

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Suddenly, Merchant and Ivory were household names, and two subsequent Forster adaptations, “Maurice” and “Howards End,” as well as their screen version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day,” cemented their reputation as impeccable filmmakers.

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