Kazumi Saeki

Kazumi Saeki (Japanese佐伯 一 麦, Saeki Kazumi, born July 21, 1959 Sendai ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Kazumi was born in Sendai, where he attended the first high school Sendai. After finishing school, he moved to Tokyo and earned his living by working at weeklies and also as an electrician. In 1984 he was awarded for his debut Ki o tsugu the Kaien literary prize for first timers. With his next work Short Circuit (ショート·サーキット, German short-circuit), which was published in 1990 and his experience is based as an electrician, he won the Noma Literary Prize for debutants. He married his wife lived another ten years in Tokyo and then moved back to his home city of Sendai.

In 1996 he was for Toki yama ni hi wa ochite (遠き 山 に 日 は 落ち て), in which he honored the lives with his wife in a small city in the Tōhoku region with the Kiyama - Shohei Prize for Literature. Kazumi experienced the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima 15 kilometers from Sendai removed itself. A translated into English short story A Novelist 's Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake and created an experience report released in March 2011 in the New York Times.

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

• Kazumi Saeki: A Novelist 's Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake. In: Speakeasy. March 11, 2012 ( Original title: Hiyoriyama, translated by Jeffrey Hunter) ( http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/03/11/a-novelists-reflections-on-the-japanese-earthquake/, accessed at July 17, 2012 ).