Ishiguro


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Ishiguro

(ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊrəʊ)
n
(Biography) 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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In his novel Never Let Me Go, 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro describes the county of Norfolk as England's "lost corner" as it is "not on the way to anywhere." As a result, the city can be quite peaceful, but in no way is it lacking in vibrancy.
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But for one of their makers, Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University, humanoids are above all "a very important tool to understand humans".
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY KAXUO ISHIGURO This nuanced, textured novel is the account of an old butler's life in service to a distinguished English house.
In his novels Kazuo Ishiguro mixes memory and desire to energize a slow, repetitive cycle of emotions and relationships spinning in time and space, at times capturing the gossamer evanescence of a life remembered.
Which award was Kazuo Ishiguro the recipient of in 2017?
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Which 1993 film, based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, starred Anthony Hopkins as a butler who devoted his life's service to a man exposed as a Nazi sympathiser?
The robot, which looks remarkably like a young woman, was created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, in 2014.
LAHORE -- The English Literary Society and Progressive Writers' Association organised a sitting on Kazuo Ishiguro , a Japanese origin British novelist, here the other day.