Hiromi Kawakami

川上 弘美

Country

Japan

Languages

Japanese

Dates

1958 — present

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Hiromi Kawakami 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.