About

Nick Bradley was born in Germany in 1982 and grew up in Bath. After graduating with a master’s degree in English literature, he moved to Japan, and lived and worked there for a long time before returning to the UK to attend the Creative Writing MA at UEA.

He has worked in a variety of jobs, including: Japanese teacher, English teacher, video game translator, travel writer, and photographer. He speaks Japanese fluently, and holds a PhD focussing on the figure of the cat in Japanese literature.

The Cat and The City (2020) is his first novel. Four Seasons in Japan (2023) is his second.

He currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge, and has also taught on the MA in Creative Writing at UEA. He was recently chosen by The National Centre for Writing and The British Council as one of ten Rising Stars in UK writing. His work has been translated into twenty languages.