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Mieko Kawakami
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Mieko Kawakami is a Japanese novelist, singer, poet and writer, born on 29 August 1976. She was educated at Nihon University and works from Tokyo. Her fields of work include poetry, literature, blogging and music, and she is signed to the record label Victor Entertainment as a vocalist.
Kawakami is married to Kazushige Abe. She has received the Akutagawa Prize, the Murasaki Shikibu Prize, the Tanizaki Prize and the Mainichi Publication Culture Award, and has been nominated for the International Booker Prize. She has written 20 works, including Ms Ice Sandwich and A Long Long Interview.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 August 1976
- Works
- 20
Top works
- たましいのふたりごと
- すべて真夜中の恋人たち
- A Long Long Interview (Chinese Edition)
- Ms Ice Sandwich
- 夏物語
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1969-09-07
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 25
- Total plays
- 216
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mieko+Kawakami">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key facts
- Native name
- 川上未映子
- Born
- ( 1976-08-29 ) August 29, 1976 (age 49) , Osaka , Japan
- Occupation
- Writer, poet
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Fiction, poetry, short stories
- Notable works
- Heaven Breasts and Eggs
- Notable awards
- Akutagawa Prize Tanizaki Prize Murasaki Shikibu Prize
- Spouse
- Kazushige Abe
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Osaka
- Spouse
- Kazushige Abe
- Occupation
- blogger
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Award
- Yomiuri Prize
- Field of work
- music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Victor Entertainment
- Official website
- www.mieko.jp
- Work location
- Tokyo
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- date of birth
- 1976-00-00
- name in kana
- かわかみ みえこ
- name in native language
- 川上未映子
- Commons category
- Mieko Kawakami
- social media followers
- 88956
- writing language
- Japanese
- nominated for
- International Booker Prize
- birth name
- 川上 三枝子
- married name
- 岡本 三枝子
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, Kawakami Mieko; born August 29, 1976) is a Japanese writer and poet. Her work has won several literary awards, including the 2007 Akutagawa Prize for her novella Chichi to Ran (乳と卵), the 2013 Tanizaki Prize for her short story collection Ai no yume to ka (愛の夢とか), and the 2008 Nakahara Chūya Prize for Contemporary Poetry for Sentan de, sasuwa sasareruwa soraeewa (先端で さすわ さされるわ そらええわ). Her 2019 novel Natsu Monogatari, an expanded version of Chichi to Ran, became a bestseller and was translated into English under the title Breasts and Eggs. Kawakami's works have been translated into several languages and distributed internationally.
Early life and music career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mieko Kawakami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.