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Hiromi Kawakami

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Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美, Kawakami Hiromi, born 1958) is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Her work has been adapted for film, and has been translated into more than 15 languages.

Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Parade

Parade

Novella

The Nakano Thrift Shop

Manazuru

The Ten Loves of Nishino

Record of a Night too Brief

Record of a Night too Brief

Short story collection

The Third Love

People from My Neighborhood

People from My Neighborhood

Short story collection

Dragon Palace

Dragon Palace

Short story collection

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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