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Born	November 8, 1954 (age 70) • Nagasaki • Japan
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2017) • Booker Prize (1989) • Costa Book Awards (1986)
Notable Works	“A Pale View of Hills” • “An Artist of the Floating World” • “Klara and the Sun” • “Never Let Me Go” • “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall” • “The Remains of the Day” • “The Saddest Music in the World” • “The Buried Giant” • “The Unconsoled” • “The White Countess” • “When We Were Orphans”

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