Naoyuki Ii
Naoyuki Ii is a noted Japanese author and professor of creative writing at Tokai University's Shonan campus.Biography
A native of Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Ii graduated in 1978 from Keio University with a degree in history. His first novel, Kusa no kanmuri, was published in 1983, and received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers. Subsequent prizes include:
- 1989 Noma Literary Prize for New Writers, for Sashite juyo denai ichinichi
- 1994 Hirabayashi Taiko Prize, for Shinka no tokei
- 2000 Yomiuri Literary Prize, for Nigotta gekiryu ni kakaru hashi
English translations
- My visit to the Yubijima Isles, translated by M. Jacob and edited by Harry Aveling, Bundoora, Vic. : La Trobe University, School of Asian Studies, 1996. 18 pages.
- Aoneko kazoku tentenroku, translated by Wayne P. Lammers. Champaign, IL and London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
