The Literature Network - Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro: Master of detached passions Once his well-mannered nihilism won him the Booker Prize - then the critics turned against him. This Tuesday he gets a second chance.

Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro: Master of detached passions Once his well-mannered nihilism won him the Booker Prize - then the critics turned against him. This Tuesday he gets a second chance.

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001105
Author:John Walsh

Writers' experience of work in the non-creative world can be rather limited. Dickens was a reporter of debates in the Commons. Trollope was a junior GPO clerk. Kenneth Grahame worked for the Bank of England.

Check out Kazuo Ishiguro's CV, on the other hand, and you find a gallery of curious jobs. For a time he worked as a grouse beater on the Queen Mother's estate in the Scottish Highlands; later he was a social worker on a Strathclyde housing estate and worked for the homeless in west London. He got a degree in English and philosophy, but began writing songs and dreamed of becoming a rock ...

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