Authors
Murata Sayaka Novelist Japan
Murata Sayaka is a Japanese writer, born in Chiba prefecture in 1979. Her first novel, Breastfeeding won the 2003 Gunzo Prize for New Writers. In 2013, she won the Mishima Yukio Prize for Of Bones, Of Body Heat, Of Whitening City and the Special Prize of the Sense of Gender Award in 2014. In 2016, Convenience Store Woman won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, and she was named one of Vogue Japan's Women of the Year. Convenience Store Woman has sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan, and it became her first book to be translated into English. It was listed in a Los Angeles Times Bestseller and has been translated into more than 35 languages. Her novella, Earthlings, and short story collection Life Ceremony are also published in English.
Participation Program
ⓒ 이천희
ⓒ Bungeishunju
[One on One] Between Fear and Fascination
ⓒ 이영균
ⓒ 우지안
ⓒ Jeosm_from.은행나무
ⓒ Bungeishunju
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