KAZUO ISHIGURO
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1960. He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of East Anglia. He now lives in London. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature and has been translated into thirteen languages. His second, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award; it has been translated into fourteen languages. The Remains of the Day was awarded the 1989 Booker Prize.