Keiji Nakazawa
Keiji Nakazawa (中沢 啓治 Nakazawa Keiji, March 14, 1939 – December 19, 2012) was a Japanese manga artist and writer.
He was born in Hiroshima and was in the city when it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945.
Nakazawa chose to portray in the 1976 story Barefoot Gen, loosely based on his own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor.
Notable works:
Barefoot Gen (1973–1974)