Kazuo Ishiguro

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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6 Wars of Independence

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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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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J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee

South African author

V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul

Trinidadian-British writer

William Golding

William Golding

British novelist

Nadine Gordimer

South African author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Doris Lessing

British writer

Penelope Lively

British author

Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Canadian author

Salman Rushdie, 2008

Salman Rushdie

British-American writer

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan

British author

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain

British author

Jeanette Winterson

British author

Rumer Godden

British writer

John Wain

British critic and writer

Ōe Kenzaburō

Ōe Kenzaburō

Japanese writer

Penelope Gilliatt

British writer

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

British writer

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

British author