Ishiguro

[ ish-ee-goor-oh ]

noun

1. Ka·zu·o [kah, -zoo-oh, kaz, -oo-oh], born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.

Ishiguro

/ ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊrəʊ /

noun

1. IshiguroKazuo1954MBritishJapaneseWRITING: novelist Kazuo (kætˈzuːəʊ). born 1954, British novelist, born in Japan. His novels include An Artist of the Floating World (1986), the Booker-prizewinning The Remains of the Day (1989), and Never Let Me Go (2005)

Example Sentences

Suddenly, Merchant and Ivory were household names, and two subsequent Forster adaptations, “Maurice” and “Howards End,” as well as their screen version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day,” cemented their reputation as impeccable filmmakers.

From Salon

This was not the case as recently as the 1990s, when butlers for the most part reflected the archetype popularized by characters like Hudson, from the TV show “Upstairs, Downstairs”; Carson, from “Downton Abbey”; or Stevens, from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “The Remains of the Day.”

From Seattle Times

To address these gaps, Professor Kei-ichiro Ishiguro, Assistant Professor Ryuki Shimada, and their research team aim to clarify the mechanisms regulating male meiosis that lead to sperm production, focusing on the identification and characterizing related transcription factors.

From Science Daily

"Whether HSF5 shares similar functions with other Heat Shock Factors, or exhibits entirely different functions poses an intriguing question, and addressing this question was the original intension our study." explains Professor Ishiguro.

From Science Daily

Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro once told The Paris Review that idealistic people become misanthropes when they’re let down two or three times.

From Los Angeles Times