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A conversation with author Kazuo Ishiguro in front of an audience at Hay Festival, Wales

A conversation with author Kazuo Ishiguro in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival in Wales.

Martha Kearney speaks to Kazuo Ishiguro in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival in Wales. Kazuo Ishiguro has managed to achieve literary success with immense popularity amongst readers. He has won a Man Booker prize and been shortlisted four times. His novels have sold in their millions around the world and have been made into highly successful films. His latest book The Buried Giant is set in a Anglo-Saxon England beset by ogres and dragons and is his first novel in 10 years. He talks to Martha Kearney about some of the themes in his books as well as his highly individual prose style.

(Photo: Kazuo Ishiguro meets fans and signs copies of his new novel The Buried Giant at Waterstone's, Piccadilly, 2015. Credit: Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

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