Natsuki Ikezawa (born 1945) was born in Hokkaido. As a young man, he quit
school at Saitama University to become a poet. He lived in Greece for
three years in the mid-1970s. Presently, he writes both fiction and
criticism, and is an active public speaker. Of Ikezawa’s works, Still
Lives and A Burden of Flowers are available in English, and the Jun’ichiro Prize winning The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili has been translated into German.
