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Sayaka Murata

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Born
August 13 1979
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Sayaka Murata is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman . She debuted in 2003 with Junyu , which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta , and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no . Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English : "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction of the Earthquake, Waseda Bungaku, 2011) and "A Clean Marriage" .

Sayaka Murata

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
August 13 1979
Twitter
Go to Twitter Account
Sayaka Murata is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman . She debuted in 2003 with Junyu , which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta , and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no . Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English : "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction of the Earthquake, Waseda Bungaku, 2011) and "A Clean Marriage" .

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