with Kazuo Ishiguro — Novelist, Nobel laureate
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Add to calendarIshiguro on what writing lyrics taught him about first-person restraint, with exercises for prose writers.
Everyone had to cut a paragraph to twelve words and keep the feeling. Two people managed it; both were poets.
Born in Nagasaki and raised in Surrey from the age of five, Ishiguro wanted to be a musician before he was a novelist, and still writes lyrics. He is famous for writing The Remains of the Day in a four-week 'crash' after years of false starts — a method he defends as a way of holding an entire book in his head at once.
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In conversationUpcomingThe Remains of the Day · Faber & Faber, 1989
with Kazuo Ishiguro — Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017
Ishiguro reconstructs the month in 1987 when he answered no letters and no telephone calls, hour by hour.
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In conversationUpcomingThe Remains of the Day · Faber & Faber, 1989
with Kazuo Ishiguro — Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017
Ishiguro on narrators who misunderstand the world on purpose, and how much a reader should be told.
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