Occupation Novelist Name Hiromi Kawakami Nationality Japanese Role Writer | Period 1990–present Education Ochanomizu University | |
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Notable works Tread on a Snake, The Briefcase/Strange Weather in Tokyo Books Strange Weather in Tokyo, Manazuru: A Novel, The Briefcase Similar People Amy Yamada, Yoko Tawada, Kaori Ekuni, Mieko Kawakami | ||
Notable awards Akutagawa Prize1996 | ||
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Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美, Kawakami Hiromi, born 1 April 1958) is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
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Biography
Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her 2001 novel Sensei no kaban (The Briefcase/Strange Weather in Tokyo) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his seventies. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
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