with Kazuo Ishiguro — Novelist, Nobel laureate
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Add to calendarIshiguro reconstructs the month in 1987 when he answered no letters and no telephone calls, hour by hour.
He read the butler's silver-polishing passage without introducing it. Nobody in the hall moved. That take is the whole cold open of episode 125.
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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WorkshopUpcomingThe Remains of the Day · Faber & Faber, 1989
with Kazuo Ishiguro — Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017
Ishiguro on what writing lyrics taught him about first-person restraint, with exercises for prose writers.
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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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