Ishiguro

American  

[ish-ee-goor-oh] / ˌɪʃ iˈgʊər oʊ /

noun

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

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Ishiguro British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

Picked by Granta in 1983 as one of Britain's top 20 young novelists, he stares out of the famous publicity photo alongside Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Rose Tremain, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, among others.

From BBC

At the heart of novel, though, is a thoughtful and darkly humorous meditation on the politics of AI personhood and subjection comparable to Kazuo Ishiguro’s project in “Klara and the Sun,” and with equally harrowing implications.

From Los Angeles Times

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?"

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times