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Hiromi Kawakami

1958 - Today

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Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美, Kawakami Hiromi; born 1958) is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Her work has been adapted for film, and has been translated into more than 15 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiromi Kawakami is the 3,410th most popular writer (up from 4,161st in 2019), the 1,000th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,112th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 3,410 out of 7,302. Before her are Charles de Saint-Évremond, C. S. Forester, Alessandro Tassoni, Corrado Alvaro, Antonio García Gutiérrez, and Ephraim Chambers. After her are Jean-François Revel, Johann Most, Lillian Hellman, Pierre Jean Jouve, Hélène Berr, and Tristan Bernard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 153. Before her are Yuriy Boyko, Mohammad Shtayyeh, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lakhdar Belloumi, Charlie Kaufman, and Stephen Hopkins. After her are Sergey Litvinov, Kuupik Kleist, Kornelia Ender, Zlatko Vujović, Belinda Carlisle, and Marc William Buie.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 1,000 out of 6,245. Before her are Mikio Sato (1928), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Yoshinori Shigematsu (1930), Masabumi Hosono (1870), Naoya Shiga (1883), and Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955). After her are Nobuko Jashima (1959), Tetsurō Tamba (1922), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Ai Yazawa (1967), Futabatei Shimei (1864), and Takuya Kimura (1972).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 75. Before her are Jien (1155), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Kafū Nagai (1879), Kan Kikuchi (1888), and Naoya Shiga (1883). After her are Natsuo Kirino (1951), Ai Yazawa (1967), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Doppo Kunikida (1871), and Ozaki Kōyō (1868).

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