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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ishiguro Kazuo
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
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