Murata at the LiteratureXchange Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2022
Native name
村田沙耶香
Born
(1979-08-14) August 14, 1979 (age 44)
Language
Japanese
Alma mater
Tamagawa University
Genre
Fiction
Notable works
Gin'iro no Uta
Shiroiro no Machi no, Sono Hone no Taion no
Convenience Store Woman
Notable awards
Akutagawa Prize
Mishima Yukio Prize
Noma Literary New Face Prize
Gunzo Prize for New Writers
Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
SayakaMurata (村田沙耶香 MurataSayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the...
コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author SayakaMurata. It captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is...
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simply "nine") is a Japanese idol group formed of Uki Satake, Sayaka Nishiwaki, and Hirona Murata. Formed in 2005, they are managed by LesPros Entertainment...
employed by Orions Belt. His blood type is A. In May 2017, Murata married actress Sayaka Kanda. The couple announced their divorce in December 2019 citing...
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also nominated for the 155th Akutagawa Prize, but the prize went to SayakaMurata. That same year Imamura won the 39th Noma Literary New Face Prize for...
the leader and performer of J-pop boygroup Sandaime J Soul Brothers. SayakaMurata, novelist (Convenience Store Woman) "Inzai city official statistics"...
Kochira Amiko) 25 2012 Jungo Aoki Watashi no Inai Kōkō (私のいない高校) 26 2013 SayakaMurata Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City (しろいろの街の、その骨の体温の, Shiro-iro...
Michel Houellebecq (FR), László Krasznahorkai (HU), Mazen Maarouf (LB), SayakaMurata (JP), Ben Okri (NI/UK), Shahrnush Parsipur (IR), Per Petterson (NO)...
physical and mental health. Maeyama was in a relationship with actress Sayaka Kanda after the two co-starred in the stage adaptation of Crest of the Royal...
Derbyshire (Germany, Fitzcarraldo Editions) Convenience Store Woman by SayakaMurata, translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Japan, Grove) The...