Kazumi Saeki (born 1959) is a Japanese novelist from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. He worked in several occupations, including magazine journalism and electrical construction, while continuing to write, and made his literary debut after “Ki o Tsugu” received the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1984. Drawing on his experiences of manual labor, marriage, illness, and the natural environment, Saeki writes autobiographical fiction built from closely observed details of everyday life. He received the Mishima Yukio Prize for "A Rūsu Bōi" and the Noma Literary Prize for "Norge." His representative novel, "Tettō Kazoku," won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and follows a novelist and his textile-artist wife in a provincial city in northeastern Japan, depicting the changing seasons, birds and plants, encounters with neighbors and construction workers, and the gradual building of a new transmission tower.