Question: Kazuo Ishiguro and Samuel Beckett, were both in which occupation?
Context: Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro.  It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for "The Remains of the Day"), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. " Time" magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".  It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006.  A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016. Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer.  He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five.  Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Footfalls is a play by Samuel Beckett.  It was written in English, between 2 March and December 1975 and was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Samuel Beckett Festival, on May 20, 1976 directed by Beckett himself.  Billie Whitelaw, for whom the piece had been written, played May whilst Rose Hill voiced the mother. Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. The "Samuel Beckett"-class offshore patrol vessel is a class of offshore patrol vessels (OPV) ordered by the Irish Naval Service from October 2010.  The first vessel is named "Samuel Beckett" , which is also the name given to the class.  Construction on this first vessel commenced in November 2011, and it was commissioned in May 2014.  The second vessel, LÉ "James Joyce" , was delivered in 2015 and the third, LÉ "William Butler Yeats" , was delivered in 2016. Act Without Words I is a short play by Samuel Beckett.  It is a mime, Beckett's first (followed by "Act Without Words II").  Like many of Beckett's works, the play was originally written in French ("Acte sans paroles I"), being translated into English by Beckett himself.  It was written in 1956 following a request from the dancer Deryk Mendel and first performed on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.  On that occasion it followed a performance of "Endgame".  The original music to accompany the performance was written by composer John S. Beckett, Samuel's cousin, who would later collaborate with him on the radio play "Words and Music". LÉ "Samuel Beckett" (P61) is a "Samuel Beckett"-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Irish Naval Service.  The ship was launched in November 2013 and commissioned in May 2014.  She is named after Irish playwright and author Samuel Beckett. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro.  After six novels, it is Ishiguro first collection of short stories, though described by the publisher as a "story cycle".  As the subtitle suggests, each of the five stories focuses on music and musicians, and the close of day.  The hardback was published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2009 and in the United States by Knopf in September 2009. Samuel Beckett Bridge (Irish: "Droichead Samuel Beckett" ) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dublin that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south side of the River Liffey to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area. When We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000.  It is loosely categorised as a detective novel.  "When We Were Orphans" was shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize, though it is considered one of Ishiguro's weakest works, with Ishiguro himself saying "It's not my best book".
Answer: novelist