Hiromi Kawakami

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Hiromi Kawakami
Born (1958-04-01) April 1, 1958
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Japanese
Period 1990–present
Notable work(s) Tread on a Snake, The Teacher's Briefcase
Notable award(s) Akutagawa Prize
1996
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Kawakami".

Kawakami Hiromi (川上 弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.

Biography

Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and made her second debut in mainstream literature with her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his seventies. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.

Awards and honors

  • 1996 Akutagawa Prize for Tread on a Snake (Hebi wo fumu)
  • 2000 Itō Sei Literature Prize for Oboreru
  • 2000 Woman Writer's Prize for Oboreru
  • 2001 Tanizaki Prize for The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban)
  • 2007 Honored by the Ministry of Education for her novel Manazuru
  • 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist for The Briefcase[1]

Selected works

  • Kamisama (God), 1994

A partial English translation of this story is included in Read Real Japanese Fiction, a compilation of Japanese short stories edited by Michael Emmerich, published in 2008.

  • Hebi wo fumu (蛇を踏む, Tread on a Snake), 1996
  • Oboreru (Drowning), 2000
  • Sensei no kaban (The Teacher's Briefcase), 2001
  • Furudogu Nakano Shoten (The Nakano Thrift Store), 2005
  • Manazuru (真鶴), 2006
  • Pasuta Mashiin Yuurei (Pasta Machine Ghosts), 2010
  • Strange Weather in Tokyo(The Briefcase), 2012

References

  1. ↑ Alison Flood (January 9, 2013). "Man Asian literary prize shortlist stages Booker re-match". The Guardian. Retrieved January 9, 2013. 

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