![]() Beginning in 1974 he attended the University of Kent to study English and Philosophy, though also taking time to be a community worker in Glasgow in 1976. ![]() Leaving school in 1973, he took a year off to hitchhike around the United States and then became a grouse beater-someone who searches for game birds such as grouse and tries to drive them toward hunters using sticks, flags, and other devices-for the Queen Mother at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Ishiguro grew up in Guildford-a large town in southeast England-and attended a grammar school for boys in Surrey. ![]() Born on November 8, 1954, in Nagasaki, Japan, Ishiguro and his family emigrated to Britain in 1960 when his father took a research position at the National Institute of Oceanography. Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist of Japanese descent. ![]()
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