Argo: An evening with books by the Nobel Prize winner for literature

In November, the Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro celebrated his 70th birthday. Having won both the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize, he is at the forefront of contemporary literature. Argo has just completed the publication of his collected writings. Translators Alena Dvořáková and Petr Fantys will guide you through an evening with Kazuo Ishiguro's novels and characters. Free entry. 

KAZUO ISHIGURO (* 1954) was born in Nagasaki, Japan. At the age of six, he moved with his parents to the UK, where he studied English Literature and took a well-known creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. He made his literary debut in 1981 with a magazine published short stories. A year later his first novel, The Faded Landscape with Hills, the story of a Japanese widow living in England, was published. Ishiguro then set his second novel, The Painter of the Ephemeral World, directly in post-war Japan.He achieved worldwide fame with Twilight of the Day, which was also made into a successful film. His subsequent prose novels, The Disappointed, When We Were Orphans, Don't Leave Me, Nocturne, The Buried Giant, and Clara and the Sun, have also been translated into English.

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