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Sayaka Murata
Japanese writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
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![]() Murata at the LiteratureXchange Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2022 | |
Native name | 村田沙耶香 |
Born | (1979-08-14) August 14, 1979 (age 44) |
Language | Japanese |
Alma mater | Tamagawa University |
Genre | Fiction |
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