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Sayaka Murata

1979 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sayaka Murata is the 6,682nd most popular writer (down from 6,606th in 2019), the 2,315th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,914th in 2019) and the 116th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sayaka Murata ranks 6,682 out of 7,302. Before her are Tom Lanoye, Claudio Rodriguez Fer, Jeff Noon, Chris Hedges, Kerry Kennedy, and Jane Taylor. After her are Catherine Asaro, Eric Linklater, Wolf Blitzer, Alexandre del Valle, Katharine Lee Bates, and Pınar Selek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Sayaka Murata ranks 387. Before her are Mohamed Kader, Emilio Insolera, Manuel Friedrich, Andrei Arlovski, Louise Brealey, and Gerardo Torrado. After her are Stéphane Grichting, Ngô Thanh Vân, Jaroslav Drobný, Bibiana Steinhaus, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and Michael Rogers.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sayaka Murata ranks 2,315 out of 6,245. Before her are Ryoyu Kobayashi (1996), Kenji Kitahara (1976), Chieko Asakawa (1958), Tetsuya Harada (1970), Yūki Kaji (1985), and Arina Tanemura (1978). After her are Yuji Tsukada (1957), Ryuji Ito (1990), Naoto Otake (1968), Kenichi Shimokawa (1970), Kenichi Uemura (1974), and Maiko Nakaoka (1985).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Sayaka Murata ranks 116. Before her are Gen Urobuchi (1972), Jun Maeda (1975), Reki Kawahara (1974), Mieko Kawakami (1976), Reiko Yoshida (1967), and Phyllis A. Whitney (1903). After her are Nagaru Tanigawa (1970), Sui Ishida (1986), Kaori Ekuni (1964), and Hitomi Kanehara (1983).

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