Natsuki Ikezawa

Template:Japanese name Ikezawa Natsuki (池澤 夏樹, born July 7, 1945) 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 Greek poetry to modern novels, and translates American literature into the Japanese language. He is also the father of voice actress Haruna Ikezawa.

Bibliography

• Still Lives (tr. Dennis Keene, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1997)
• A burden of flowers (tr. Alfred Birnbaum, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001)
• On a Small Bridge in Iraq (tr. Alfred Birnbaum, Okinawa: Impala, 2003)

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)