WRITER

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 is best known for the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman (2016) which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide. Murata has won every major literary prize in Japan, winning the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003, the Noma Literary New Face Prize in 2009, the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013, and the Akutagawa Prize for Convenience Store Woman in 2016. All the English translations of her work are done by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Sayaka Murata is the 6,713th most popular writer (down from 6,606th in 2024), the 2,360th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,913th in 2019) and the 120th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among people born in 1979, Sayaka Murata ranks 393. Before her are Mohamed Kader, Emilio Insolera, Manuel Friedrich, Andrei Arlovski, Louise Brealey, and Gerardo Torrado. After her are Stéphane Grichting, Ngô Thanh Vân, Wallace Huo, Jaroslav Drobný, Bibiana Steinhaus, and Severn Cullis-Suzuki.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sayaka Murata ranks 2,355 out of 6,245. Before her are Arina Tanemura (1978). After her are Yuji Tsukada (1957), Ryuji Ito (1990), Jun'ichi Kanemaru (1963), Naoto Otake (1968), Kenichi Shimokawa (1970), Kenichi Uemura (1974), Maiko Nakaoka (1985), Momo Hirai (1996), Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993), Toshihiro Yoshimura (1971), and Susumu Uemura (1964).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Sayaka Murata ranks 119. Before her are Mieko Kawakami (1976), Chiaki J. Konaka (1961), Reiko Yoshida (1967), Hajime Kanzaka (1964), and Phyllis A. Whitney (1903). After her are Kinoko Nasu (1973), Nagaru Tanigawa (1970), Koushun Takami (1969), Sui Ishida (1986), Machi Tawara (1962), Kaori Ekuni (1964), and Nahoko Uehashi (1962).

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