Kazumi Saeki (佐伯 一麦, Saeki Kazumi, born July 21, 1959 in Sendai) is a Japanese novelist from Sendai in Miyagi prefecture.
His experiences in the 2011 Great Tohoku Kanto earthquake were recounted in an op-ed piece in the New York Times under the title, "In Japan, No Time Yet for Grief" translated by Seiji M.
[1] After graduating from high school he moved to Tokyo and worked various jobs including in magazines and as an electrician for 10 years.
In the op-ed he writes: "Before I became a writer, I worked for 10 years as an electrician, until I suffered asbestos poisoning.
In 1997 he spent a year in Norway, writing about those experiences in the novel Norge, for which he received the 2007 Noma Literary Prize.