Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer, best known for the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman, published in 2016 and translated into more than thirty languages. She has won a number of major Japanese literary prizes, among them the Gunzo Prize for New Writers. Her honours include the Noma Literary New Face Prize in 2009, the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013 and the Akutagawa Prize for Convenience Store Woman in 2016. Her English translator is Ginny Tapley Takemori.
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is the 2025 novel Vanishing World, originally published in Japan in 2015
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born August 14, 1979
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