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Kazuo Ishiguro

1954 - Today

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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo, ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazuo Ishiguro has received more than 5,576,703 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Kazuo Ishiguro is the 541st most popular writer (up from 572nd in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Japan (up from 71st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro is most famous for his novel The Remains of the Day, which was turned into a movie in 1993. The novel is about a butler who spends his life serving an English lord.

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  • 5.6M

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  • 65.79

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  • 88

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kazuo Ishiguro ranks 541 out of 5,755. Before him are Washington Irving, Eugene O'Neill, Erich Kästner, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ivan Bunin, and Laurence Sterne. After him are Wilbur Smith, Alfred Jarry, Aulus Gellius, Gaius Julius Hyginus, A. A. Milne, and Heinrich Mann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro ranks 18. Before him are Emir Kusturica, Oprah Winfrey, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Shinzō Abe, Jean-Claude Juncker, and Dieter Bohlen. After him are Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ang Lee, Halimah Yacob, Stieg Larsson, Mario Kempes, and Andrej Babiš.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuo Ishiguro ranks 69 out of 6,048. Before him are Koxinga (1624), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Liv Ullmann (1938), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), and Date Masamune (1567). After him are Fumio Kishida (1957), Sonny Chiba (1939), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), and Shirō Ishii (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kazuo Ishiguro ranks 12. Before him are Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Sei Shōnagon (966), and Natsume Sōseki (1867). After him are Masaru Emoto (1943), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Kōbō Abe (1924), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), and Zeami Motokiyo (1363).

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