“Born in 1954 in Nagasaki but educated in Britain, Kazuo Ishiguro is known for, among other things, his lyrical prose, his acute sense of place and for his masterful parsing of the British class system.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/books/nobel-prize-literature.html
“He earned a Master’s degree in 1980 and became a British citizen in 1982, the year he published his first novel, ‘A Pale View of Hills,’ which is set in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing.”
Nagasaki isn’t Kumamoto . . . but it’s pretty close! :)
– Kirk
