Yasuhiko Nishizawa (1960-2025) was born in Akashi, Japan. He studied Creative Writing in the United States, before returning to Japan and beginning to write murder mysteries while working as a university assistant and high school lecturer. His book Serial Murder was shortlisted for the first Tetsuya Ayukawa Award in 1990, and he has been highly praised by authors such as Soji Shimada. The Man Who Died Seven Times is the first of his novels to be translated into English. On his death, it was hailed in the Japanese press as ‘a landmark in the history of Japanese crime fiction.’ -- Pushkin Press