6/21/2023 0 Comments Izumi suzuki books![]() In one of the few academic articles in English to mention Suzuki, scholar Mari Kotani notes that she did not always think of herself as a science fiction writer. So who was she, anyway, and what of the work she left behind? With the publication of Terminal Boredom, English-language readers will be able to discover Suzuki in her own right. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there is much more information available in English about the male artists with whom she lived and worked her own life tends to be talked about in relation to theirs, when it is talked about at all. This is, by and large, the sum total of biographical information readily available to English-language readers on the subject of Izumi Suzuki, a pioneering writer of science fiction whose first collection of stories to appear in English, Terminal Boredom, is available now from Verso. ![]() She took her own life in 1986 at the age of 36. She was extremely productive in the years after his death, writing short stories, novels, and essays. In 1973, she married the free jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe, with whom she had a daughter Abe died of a drug overdose in 1978, one year after their divorce. ![]() She appeared in a few “pink films”-an arty subgenre of sexploitation cinema-directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, among others, and posed for the erotic art photographer Nobuyoshi Araki before devoting herself to writing full time. After graduating high school, she moved to Tokyo, where she worked as a bar hostess. ![]()
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