Sir Kazuo Ishiguro--British-Japanese Nobel Laureate in Literature in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro

I read his first 2 novels and saw the movie version

of Remains of the Day.

I saw him at a book reading in about 1994 in Philadelphia at Borders Book Store.

He asked "Who's handling your book?"

I didn't have a literary agent then and I don't have one now. :(

It's getting "boring"--

He was wearing an old sweater --light brown/beige color with yarn balls? on it.

I'm all for non-white writers--internationals or multicultural Fortunately, there are a lot of us now--writing in English or being translated. South Americans, Nigerians, Indians, Chinese--and a very few Burmese-born--which is not good.

But I am still alive and I am still writing and painting.

A lot of artists and writers make the world wider and more interesting.

Kyi May Kaung

9-23-2024