Hiromi Kawakami
| Hiromi Kawakami | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 1, 1958 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Period | 1990–present |
| Notable works | Tread on a Snake, The Briefcase/Strange Weather in Tokyo |
| Notable awards |
Akutagawa Prize 1996 |
In this Japanese name, the family name is Kawakami.
Kawakami Hiromi (川上 弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
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.
Awards and honors
- 1996 Akutagawa Prize for Hebi wo fumu (Tread on a Snake)
- 2000 Itō Sei Literature Prize for Oboreru
- 2000 Woman Writer's Prize for Oboreru
- 2001 Tanizaki Prize for Sensei no kaban
- 2007 Honored by the Ministry of Education for her novel Manazuru
- 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist for The Briefcase[1]
- 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist for Strange Weather in Tokyo (Japanese; trans. Allison Markin Powell)[2]
Selected works
| Original publication | English publication | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Year | Title | Year |
| 神様 Kamisama |
1994 | Partial translation included in Read Real Japanese Fiction by Michael Emmerich. | 2008 |
| 蛇を踏む Hebi wo fumu |
1996 | Record of a Night Too Brief | 2017 |
| 溺れる Oboreru |
2000 | N/A | N/A |
| センセイの鞄 Sensei no kaban |
2001 | The Briefcase / Strange Weather in Tokyo | 2012 |
| 古道具 中野商店 Furudōgu Nakano shōten |
2005 | The Nakano Thrift Shop | 2016 |
| 真鶴 Manazuru |
2006 | Manazuru | 2010 |
| パスタマシーンの幽霊 Pasutamashīn no yūrei |
2010 | N/A | N/A |
References
- ↑ Alison Flood (9 January 2013). "Man Asian literary prize shortlist stages Booker re-match". The Guardian. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ↑ Alison Flood (8 April 2014). "Knausgaard heads Independent foreign fiction prize shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
External links
- http://www.parisreview.com/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5482
- http://thegodofbears.blogspot.com/2008/10/god-of-bears.html
- Hiromi Kawakami at J'Lit Books from Japan (English)
- Synopsis of Manazuru at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) (English)
- Review of "Strange Weather in Tokyo", Booklover Book Reviews (English)
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