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  Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer, born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and raised in the UK from the age of five. He’s known for his subtle, restrained prose and for exploring themes like memory, loss, identity, and the passage of time. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, with the Swedish Academy praising his work for uncovering “the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Some of his most famous works include: The Remains of the Day (1989) – about an English butler reflecting on his life and missed opportunities Never Let Me Go (2005) – a haunting dystopian novel about cloning and humanity An Artist of the Floating World (1986) – set in postwar Japan, dealing with guilt and memory Klara and the Sun (2021) – narrated by an artificial friend observing human behavior His writing often uses unreliable narrators, where what’s unsaid is just as important as what’s said. Important works of Kazuo Ish...