![]() ![]() Ishiguro discovered literature as a young boy when he came upon Sherlock Holmes stories in the local library. Ishiguro moved to Surrey, England, when he was 5 years old, and attended Woking County Grammar School, a school that he told The Guardian was “probably the last chance to get a flavor of a bygone English society that was already rapidly fading.” ![]() “He is such a rare and mysterious writer, always surprising to me, with every book,” he wrote in an email.īorn in 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, the son of an oceanographer, Mr. The Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje, the author of “The English Patient,” said he was “thrilled” by the academy’s choice. The resonance in his plots often comes from the rich subtext - the things left unsaid, and gaps between the narrator’s perception and reality. His novels are often written in the first person, with unreliable narrators who are in denial about truths that are gradually revealed to the reader. Ishiguro has gained wide recognition for his stark, emotionally restrained prose. In a career that spans some 35 years, Mr. ![]()
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