Biographie de Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels : " A Pale View of Hills " (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), " An Artist of the Floating World " (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), " The Remains of the Day " (1989, winner of the Booker Prize) and " The Unconsoled " (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize). Kazuo Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. " The Remains of the Day " became an international best-seller, with over a million copies sold in the English language alone, and was adapted into an award-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. In 1995, Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration " Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ". He lives in London with his wife and daughter.