is a Japanese poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He draws upon the relationship between civilization and nature in his writing, among other themes. Ikezawa translates a wide variety of writing, from contemporary

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to modern novels, and translates American literature into the

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. He is also the father of

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. Since 2011 he has been the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine '' Bungei''.

Bibliography

;English translations: * ''Still Lives'' (tr. Dennis Keene, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1997) * ''A burden of flowers'' (tr.

Alfred Birnbaum Alfred Birnbaum (born 1955)Our Authors: Alfred Birnbaum

, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001) * ''On a Small Bridge in Iraq'' (tr. Alfred Birnbaum, Okinawa: Impala, 2003) * ''The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili'' (Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2012), translation of ''Masiasu Giri no shikkyaku'' (マシアス・ギリの失脚) (1993)

References

External links

Impala
��Official web site
The A Team
(Words Without Borders, tr. Alfred Birnbaum, from Ikezawa Natsuki. ‘Asteroid no Kansokutai (アステロイドの観測隊)’, ''Switch'' Vol. 11, No. 3, Tokyo: Switch Publishing, 1993.7)
Natsuki Ikezawa
at J'Lit Books from Japan

at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ikezawa, Natsuki 1945 births Living people Japanese expatriates in Greece Japanese expatriates in France Japanese translators Japanese essayists Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists English–Japanese translators French–Japanese translators Magic realism writers Akutagawa Prize winners Writers from Hokkaido People from Obihiro, Hokkaido 20th-century essayists 21st-century essayists