KAZUO ISHIGURO is the bestselling author of six novels, including An Artist of the Floating World, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; When We Were Orphans, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; and Never Let Me Go, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Man Booker Prize, among others. The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, became an international bestseller, selling over a million copies in the English language alone. Ishiguro lives in London, England.