# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiyoko-murata
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:30:35.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kiyoko-murata"
name: "Kiyoko Murata"
slug: "kiyoko-murata"
description: "Kiyoko Murata  is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, and the Yomiuri Prize, among other literary prizes. The Government of Japan has awarded her the Medal with Purple Ribbon and Order of the Rising Sun, and she has been appointed to the Japan Art Academy. Her work has been adapted for film by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Onchi."
tagline: "Japanese writer, essayist and novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.3
  momentum:             9.770909090909091
  historical:           7.243128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0613594/"
    handle:    "nm0613594"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%91%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Мурата, Киёко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoko_Murata"
    title: "Kiyoko Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%BA%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B1"
    title: "Κιγιόκο Μουράτα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoko_Murata"
    title: "Kiyoko Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoko_Murata"
    title: "Kiyoko Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoko_Murata"
    title: "Kiyoko Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E7%94%B0%E5%96%9C%E4%BB%A3%E5%AD%90"
    title: "村田喜代子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744004"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1478311"
    title: "Kiyoko Murata"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump