Akiyuki Nosaka (1930–2015) was a Japanese novelist and lyricist. Born in Kamakura and raised in Kobe, he worked as a broadcast writer and advertising songwriter before making his literary debut in 1963 with "Erogotoshitachi." Drawing extensively on his experiences of wartime destruction and postwar deprivation, he described himself as a member of the “Burned Ruins and Black Market” school of writers. His best-known work, "Hotaru no Haka," which received the Naoki Prize together with "Amerika Hijiki," was inspired by the death of his younger sister and follows two siblings who lose their mother in the bombing of Kobe and are gradually overcome by hunger and social isolation.