Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960. He has studied at the universities of Kent and East Anglia and currently lives in London. He is considered one of the best contemporary writers. In 1995 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and, in 1998, Knight of Arts and Letters by the French government. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He is the author of seven novels - Light on the Hills, A Floating World Artist (Whitbread Prize), The Remains of the Day (Booker Prize), The Consolables (Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans, Never Leave Me (Premio Novela Europea Casino de Santiago) and The Giant Buried - and a book of stories - Nightclubs -, extraordinary works that Anagrama has published in Castilian.