Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.