Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki in 1954, and at age 5 he moved with his parents to London, where he has lived ever since. In 1986, his second novel, "An Artist of the Floating World," was nominated for Britain's leading award for fiction, the Booker Prize. Three years later, his next and arguably best-known novel, "The Remains of the Day," won the Booker and was subsequently turned into an Oscar-winning film.
The author is currently visiting Japan to participate in an international literary forum organized annually by Hayakawa Shobo, which this year published three of Ishiguro's works translated into Japanese, including his latest, last year's "When We Were Orphans," another Booker nominee.
In an exclusive interview with The Japan Times, Ishiguro talks about fiction, feelings and the influences of his Japanese origins and his upbringing in postwar Britain.