Natsuki Ikezawa

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Natsuki Ikezawa ( Japanese 池 澤 夏 樹 , Ikezawa Natsuki ; born July 7, 1945 in Obihiro ) is a Japanese writer.

The son of Takehiko Fukunaga and Akiko Harajō began studying physics, which he broke off in the late 1960s. From 1972 to 1975 he lived in Greece, where he translated works by contemporary Greek poets. After his return to Japan, his volume of poetry Shio no michi was published in 1978 .

Since the 1980s, Ikezawa worked mainly as a prose writer. For the story The motionless life , he was awarded the Chūōkōron Young Talent Prize and Akutagawa Prize , for the essay book End with Joy with the Yomiuri Literature Prize . In 2010 he received the Asahi Prize .

Ikezawa lived in France in the 1990s. In Asahi shinbun magazine , Shizukana daichi (The Quiet Landscape) was published as a serial . Ikezawa's daughter Haruna Ikezawa became known as a voice actress .

Works

  • Shio no michi (The Way of Salt), 1978
  • Mottomo nagai kawa ni kansuru kōsatsu (Considering the longest river), 1982
  • Natsu no asa no seisōken (The Stratosphere of a Summer Morning ), 1984
  • Stiru raifu (The Still Life), 1987 ( Chūōkōron Shinjin Shō and Akutagawa Prize )
  • Mahiru no puriniusu (Pliny at noon), 1989
  • Hone wa sango, me wa shinju (coral bones, pearl eyes), 1989
  • Haha naru shizen no oppai (End with Joy), 1992, ( Yomiuri Literature Prize )
  • Minami no shima no tio (Tio from the southern island), 1992
  • Mashiasu giri no shikkyaku , 1993 ( Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize )
    • German rise and fall of Macias Guili , translated by Otto Putz, be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 9783861245407
  • Tanoshii shūmatsu ( Happy End), 1999 ( Itō-Sei Literature Prize )
  • Hana o hakobu imōto (The sister who brings flowers), 2000 ( Mainichi Culture Prize )

literature

  • (2013) Beret, Madlen: "'My Beautiful Grandmother's Bible' - A literary commentary by Ikezawa Natsuki." In: Lisette Gebhardt, Steffi Richter (ed.): Reader "Fukushima". Translations, commentaries, essays . Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, pp. 155-175. ISBN 978-3-86893-103-7

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personal data
SURNAME Ikezawa, Natsuki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Obihiro