Author information of The Remains of the Day

Ishiguro Kazuo was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954. When he was five years old, he followed his father to settle in England. So far, six novels have been published and have been translated into more than thirty languages. The themes of his works are thought-provoking and the language is concise, elegant and persuasive. Each of his novels has won literary awards in Europe and the United States, including one Booker Prize ("The Remains of the Day") and three Booker Prize nominations. He was awarded the British Empire Medal and the French Government's Chevalier des Lettres et des Arts. Kazuo Ishiguro is a famous Japanese-British writer. He went to England with his father when he was young and now lives in London. His main works include "Shadows of Distant Mountains", "The Painter of the Floating World" and "Shanghai Orphan". He has won the Booker Prize, the Winifred Holtby Prize, and is known as one of England's most respected novelists. Ishiguro's early works were mostly about solipsism and the confinement and closure of human nature. Using this as material, he focused on exposing the shortcomings of history and the weaknesses of imperialism in the early 20th century.