BRITISH AUTHOR KAZUO ISHIGURO WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey. 

Afterwards he worked as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral before enrolling at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy. He was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow (1976), and after graduating worked as a residential social worker in London.

He is the aiuthor of many novels, short stories and film scripts. Some of his best-known novels include A Pale View of Hills, The Remains of the day and Never let me Go.