Kameyama Ikuo

Russian literature scholar. President of Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. Director of the Setagaya Literary Museum. Born in 1949 in Tochigi Prefecture. In 2002, his work Haritsuke no Roshia—Sutārin to geijutsuka-tachi (Russia Crucified: Stalin and the Artists) won the Osaragi Jirō Prize, and his 2007 Japanese translation of The Brothers Karamazov won the Mainichi Publication Culture Award in 2007 and the Pushkin Medal in 2008. In 2012, his book Nazotoki “Akuryō” (Unraveling the Mysteries of Demons) won the Yomiuri Prize. Has also published new Japanese translations of Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, Demons, and The Idiot. In 2015, he published his first original fiction novel, Shin Karamāzofu no kyōdai (The New Brothers Karamazov). In 2021, he was awarded the Dostoevsky Star medal by the Russian government.