Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London with his wife Lorna MacDougall and daughter Naomi.