Aki Shimazaki
Canadian writer
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| Intro | Canadian writer | |
| A.K.A. | Shimazaki Aki | |
| A.K.A. | Shimazaki Aki | |
| Places | Canada | |
| is | Writer Linguist Translator Novelist | |
| Work field | Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1954, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Chūbu region, Japan | |
| Age | 71 years |
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Biography
Aki Shimazaki (born 1954 in Gifu, Japan) is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. She has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French, since 1991.
Her second novel, Hamaguri, won the Prix Ringuet in 2000. Her fourth, Wasurenagusa, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2002. Her fifth, Hotaru, won the 2005 Governor General's Award for French fiction. Her books have been translated in English, Japanese, German, Hungarian, Italian and Russian.
Novels
- Tsubaki, 1999
- Hamaguri, 2000
- Tsubame, 2001
- Wasurenagusa, 2002
- Hotaru, 2005
- Mitsuba, 2006
- Zakuro, 2008
- Tonbo, 2010
- Tsukushi, 2012
- Yamabuki, 2013