# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/risa-wataya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:28:38.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/risa-wataya"
name: "Risa Wataya"
slug: "risa-wataya"
description: "Risa Wataya  is a female Japanese novelist from Kyoto. Her short novel Keritai senaka won the Akutagawa Prize and has sold more than a million copies. Wataya has also won the Bungei Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Thai, Korean, and English."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Risa_Wataya_(%E7%B6%BF%E7%9F%A2%E3%82%8A%E3%81%95)_at_Embassy_of_Japan_in_Poland_in_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1984-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.76
  momentum:             3.791016843418591
  historical:           12.12918533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/watayarisa/"
    handle:    "watayarisa"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%BF%E7%9F%A2%E8%8E%89%E8%8E%8E"
    title: "綿矢莉莎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%BF%E7%9F%A2%E3%82%8A%E3%81%95"
    title: "綿矢りさ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%80%ED%83%80%EC%95%BC_%EB%A6%AC%EC%82%AC"
    title: "와타야 리사"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Ватая, Риса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Wataya"
    title: "Risa Wataya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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