Hiromi Kawakami
Born in 1958 in Tokyo, HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists. She is the recipient of the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers and the Akutagawa Prize. Her novel Drowning won both the Ito Sei Literature Award and Joryu Bungaku Sho (Women Writers’ Prize) in 2000. Her novel Manazuru won the 2011 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize. Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban) won the Tanizaki prize in 2001 and was shortlisted for both the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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PodcastsPodcasts | The Online Edition
Podcasts | The Online Edition
Hiromi Kawakami: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88
Hiromi Kawakami, Anne Meadows & Asa Yoneda
Hiromi Kawakami is a novelist, haiku poet, literary critic and essayist. Her books include Manazuru,...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Blue Moon
Hiromi Kawakami
‘Rather than death itself, it is the disappearance of traces that seems unbearable and sad. The disappearance of all signs that I existed.’
FictionFiction | Granta Books
Fiction | Granta Books
The Moon and the Batteries
Hiromi Kawakami
‘His full name was Mr Harutsuna Matsumoto, but I called him ‘Sensei’. Not ‘Mr’ or ‘Sir’, just ‘Sensei’.’
FictionFiction | Granta Books
Fiction | Granta Books
God Bless You, 2011
Hiromi Kawakami
‘He had treated all of us on the same floor to ‘moving-in noodles’ as a symbol of good will and distributed packets of postcards, a level of formality you don’t see often nowadays.’