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- ↑ "The Writers' Trust of Canada - Prize History". Archived from the original on 12 January 2012.
- Chaos as Metaphor: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro. By Peter Oliva, 1995, in: Brian W. Shaffer, Cynthia F. Wong ed., Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro. Literary Conversations, 2008, pp 120–124
