Aki Shimazaki

Novelist, Author

1954 –

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Who is Aki Shimazaki?

Aki Shimazaki 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 and Russian.

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Born
1954
Japan
Nationality
  • Japan
  • Canada
Profession
Lived in
  • Gifu Prefecture

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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