Then, it was Ishiguro who came out on top with The Remains Of The Day.
"I've never really known a lot of people who related to me fashion-wise, " says Ishiguro.
Yet by not even nodding towards these emotions, Mr Ishiguro's novel trips itself up.
In Japan, says Mr Ishiguro, people are even more reluctant than in other places to approach a stranger.
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But Japanese subjects behave intriguingly when they talk to Mr Ishiguro's android, ReplieeQ1.
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Hiroshi Ishiguro, a robotocist at Osaka University, cites the example of asking directions.
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He lost out to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day that year.
Children's author Philip Pullman will receive the festival's honorary fellowship, an accolade given in previous years to William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, and PD James.
Tiffany Ishiguro, who works in human resources in Seattle, shows women how to be chic and also work-appropriate on her blog, I Am Style-ish.
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, this Merchant-Ivory production strains so hard to portray dignified restraint that it almost seizes up with good manners.
"There were good announcements about smart TVs, 4k TVs and other connected devices, " said Ichiro Ishiguro, an analyst at Hermes who has been coming to CES for 10 years.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
Gareth Edwards' sci-fi film Monsters has six nominations as do Never Let Me Go, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel, and The Arbor, a documentary about the life of troubled Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
With so many "big" books on the shortlist and well-known favourites like Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro, it was quite exciting to see John Banville slink off with the Man Booker Prize last night.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about new authors so I'm going to be given a list of 20 exciting new novelists - and hopefully amongst them will be the new Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, William Boyd or Kazuo Ishiguro...
"The stock market will digest the move today and then probably take a breather, but in the short term I don't see it falling very far as there are no incentives for a sell-off, " said Hideyuki Ishiguro, senior investment strategist at Okasn Securities in Tokyo.
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