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 novel, Wasurenagusa, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2002. Her fifth novel, Hotaru, won the 2005 Governor General’s Award for French fiction.