Dec 24, 2009

A Family Supper | Biography

Born in Nagasaki in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to England in 1960 with his family, settling outside of London. Although they assumed they would eventually return to Japan, they never did, for living in England suited them. Ishiguro became a British citizen in 1982; in 1986, he married Lorna MacDougall, a social worker, and they have one daughter. In 1989, he returned to Japan for the first time.

Both before and after attending the University of Kent, he hitchhiked around the United States and Canada and worked at a variety of odd jobs, including helping homeless people. He...