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Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanese-British novelist and Nobel Laureate known for profound literary fiction.

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Kazuo Ishiguro is best known for Writing emotionally powerful novels exploring memory and identity, including the Nobel Prize-winning work. On Dead or Alive, Kazuo Ishiguro is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Kazuo Ishiguro is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Writing emotionally powerful novels exploring memory and identity, including the Nobel Prize-winning work
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About Kazuo Ishiguro

His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their mournful tone. Salman Rushdie praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he "turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis". Time named Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

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