(Ⓒ Kyodo News via Getty Images)Īs a boy, Kazuo Ishiguro enjoyed television Westerns and spy stories and wrote easily without entertaining any serious ambition of becoming a writer. Ishiguro was born in the city of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, and moved to Surrey, England, when he was 5. British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro playing the electric piano at his home in London. He did not see the country of his birth again until his mid-30s. When he was 15, his family decided to remain in Britain permanently. The temporary assignment became a permanent position, and though the Ishiguros continued to speak Japanese at home, young Kazuo grew up in an English town, attending English schools and singing in the church choir. The family moved to Guildford, in the south of England. When Kazuo was five years old, his father, an oceanographer, accepted an invitation from the British government to conduct research in England, what he thought at the time was a temporary assignment in England. His mother had survived the atomic bomb attack on the city that ended World War II his father had spent the war years in Shanghai. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan.
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