Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19421000.______" title="村田 沙耶香" rel="nofollow noopener">村田 沙耶香</a>) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today. <br />She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write <i>Convenience Store Woman</i> (<i>Konbini Ningen</i>). She debuted in 2003 with <i>Junyu</i> (<i>Breastfeeding</i>), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with <i>Gin iro no uta</i> (<i>Silver Song</i>), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for <i>Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no</i> (<i>Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City</i>). <i>Convenience Store Woman</i> won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (<i>Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthquake</i>, Waseda Bungaku, 2011) and "A Clean Marriage" (<i>Granta 127: Japan</i>, 2014).
Life Ceremony

Life Ceremony

Sayaka Murata

Vanishing World

Vanishing World

Sayaka Murata

La dependienta

La dependienta

Sayaka Murata

Zemljani

Zemljani

Sayaka Murata

授乳

授乳

Sayaka Murata

Uma Questão de Conveniência

Uma Questão de Conveniência

Sayaka Murata

Lover on the breeze

Lover on the breeze

Sayaka Murata

A Clean Marriage

A Clean Marriage

Sayaka Murata

Convenience Store Woman - Gadis Minimarket

Convenience Store Woman - Gadis Minimarket

Sayaka Murata

Femeia minimarket

Femeia minimarket

Sayaka Murata

Parti e omicidi

Parti e omicidi

Sayaka Murata

Earthlings

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata

Convenience Store Woman: Library Edition

Sayaka Murata

La ragazza del convenience store

La ragazza del convenience store

Sayaka Murata

I terrestri

I terrestri

Sayaka Murata

La cerimonia della vita

La cerimonia della vita

Sayaka Murata

Die Ladenhüterin

Die Ladenhüterin

Sayaka Murata

Dziewczyna z konbini

Dziewczyna z konbini

Sayaka Murata

コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

Sayaka Murata

Convenience Store Woman

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata