Rin Usami debuted in 2019 at the age of 19 years old by winning the 56th Bungei Prize for her novel Kaka, and also for the same novel, she became the youngest recipient of the 33rd Yukio Mishima Prize. The following year she published the novel Idol, Burning, and in 2021 it was nominated for the Japanese Booksellers’ Award, and won the Okinawa Booksellers’ Award. With this work, she became the third youngest person to ever win 164th Akutagawa Prize. Idol, Burning has been translated into 15 languages and was called ”The TikTok generation’s The Catcher in the Rye” by the London based book industry business magazine The Bookseller. It became a bestseller and has sold more than 800,000 copies. Her latest novel is called Daughter in the Car.