Kazuo Ishiguro gives a press conference after being announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

The transcript discusses the significant role the speaker's wife plays in his writing career. She has been his first editor since they met in 1979, when he was aspiring to be a musician. Despite his fame, she critiques his work as she did when he started, which he finds crucial. Her perception of him as an 'upstart' writer keeps him grounded and motivated.

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