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Amy Yamada

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Japanese writer

JapanWritersBorn 1959 · age 67
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Amy Yamada is a contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial love and marriage. Her debut and subsequent popular success in the 1990s was a part of Japan's hip-hop and Black culture boom.

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Awards 8

2016Kawabata award
2012Noma Literary Prize
2005Tanizaki Prize
2001Yomiuri Prize
1996Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature
1991Women's Literature Prize
1989Hirabayashi Taiko Prize
1987Naoki Prize

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Amy Yamada is a contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial love and marriage. Her debut and subsequent popular success in the 1990s was a part of Japan's hip-hop and Black culture boom. While she is most known for her stories of complicated and messy romantic love, she also writes on the daily minutiae of life (slice-of-life), child-raising, and bullying.

Country
Japan
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1959 · age 67
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12 languages

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