Clive William Nicol, MBE (Japanese: C・W・ニコル; 17 July 1940 – 3 April 2020) was a Welsh-Japanese writer.

He spent 1967 to 1969 as a game warden in Ethiopia, setting up the new Semien Mountains National Park.

He returned to Japan, writing a book about his Ethiopian experiences entitled From the Roof of Africa (1971).

[3] In 1980, he won the Japan Broadcasting Writer's Award for a television drama written in Japanese.

His books have been translated between English and Japanese, as well as into French, Italian, German, Mongolian, Korean and Chinese.