Keiji Nakazawa

1939–2012

1 standalone book

Keiji Nakazawa (1939–2012) was a Japanese manga artist and writer. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical series Barefoot Gen, a landmark work depicting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. A hibakusha, Nakazawa was in Hiroshima during the August 1945 bombing and lost most of his family, and his experiences shaped manga that confronted war trauma, nuclear devastation, and postwar Japanese society. Serialized from 1973, Barefoot Gen became one of the first Japanese comics to gain international recognition.

Born

1939