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Hiromi Kawakami was born on 1 April, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese writer. Discover Hiromi Kawakami's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Occupation Novelist
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April, 1958
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japan

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Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美) 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.

1958

Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958 and grew up in the Takaido neighborhood of Suginami City.

1980

She graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980.

After graduating from college Kawakami began writing and editing for NW-SF, a Japanese science fiction magazine.

Her first short story, "Sho-shimoku" ("Diptera"), appeared in NW-SF in 1980.

She also taught science in a middle school and high school, but became a housewife when her husband had to relocate for work.

1994

In 1994, at the age of 36, Kawakami debuted as a writer of literary fiction with a collection of short stories entitled Kamisama (God).

1996

In 1996 Hebi wo fumi (Tread on a Snake) won the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards.

It was later translated into English under the title Record of a Night Too Brief.

2001

She received the Tanizaki Prize in 2001 for her novel Sensei no kaban (The Briefcase or Strange Weather in Tokyo), a love story about a friendship and romance between a woman in her thirties and her former teacher, a man in his seventies.

After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Kawakami rewrote her debut short story "Kamisama" ("God"), keeping the original plot but incorporating the events of Fukushima into the story.

2014

In 2014 the film Nishino Yukihiko no Koi to Bōken, based on Kawakami's 2003 novel of the same name and starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Machiko Ono, was released nationwide in Japan.

That same year Kawakami's novel Suisei (水声) was published by Bungeishunjū.

2015

Suisei won the 66th Yomiuri Prize in 2015, with selection committee member Yōko Ogawa praising the book for expanding the horizon of literature.

2016

In 2016 Kawakami's book Ōkina tori ni sarawarenai yō (大きな鳥にさらわれないよう), a collection of 14 short stories published by Kodansha, won the 44th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature.

Kawakami's work explores emotional ambiguity by describing the intimate details of everyday social interactions.

Many of her stories incorporate elements of fantasy and magical realism.

Her writing has drawn comparisons to Lewis Carroll and Banana Yoshimoto, and she has cited Gabriel García Márquez and J. G. Ballard as influences.

Many of her short stories, novel extracts, and essays have been translated into English, including "God Bless You" ("Kamisama"), "The Moon and the Batteries" (extract from Sensei no kaban), "Mogera Wogura", "Blue Moon", "The Ten Loves of Nishino", and "People in My Neighborhood."