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Mieko Kawakami

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Japanese novelist and singer

JapanWritersBorn 1976 · age 50
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Mieko Kawakami is a Japanese writer and poet. She is best known for her 2019 novel Breasts and Eggs, an expanded and reworked version of her 2008 novel Chichi to Ran .

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2023Yomiuri Prize
2019Mainichi Publication Culture Award
2016Junichi Watanabe Award
2013Tanizaki Prize
2010Murasaki Shikibu Prize
2009Chuya Nakahara Prize
2007Akutagawa Prize

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Mieko Kawakami is a Japanese writer and poet. She is best known for her 2019 novel Breasts and Eggs, an expanded and reworked version of her 2008 novel Chichi to Ran . Following the international success of Breats and Eggs multiple of her earlier novels and most of her works since have been translated into English, among many other languages, and distributed internationally. Among them are Heaven (2009) and All the Lovers in the Night (2011), as well as Sisters in Yellow (2023), her first novel released since Breasts and Eggs.

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Japan
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Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1976 · age 50
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25 languages

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