Author
Sayaka Murata
Photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson, Wikimedia CommonsSayaka Murata has 4 books in the Readimo catalogue, among them Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony. Open any book to see how long it takes to read, then track your own reading of it.
About Sayaka Murata
Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer. She is best known for the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman (2016) which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide. Murata has won many major literary prizes in Japan, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003, the Noma Literary New Face Prize in 2009, the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013, and the Akutagawa Prize for Convenience Store Woman in 2016. All the English translations of her work are done by Ginny Tapley Takemori. In addition to Convenience Store Woman, Murata's first book to be published in English, Takemori has translated the novels Earthlings and Vanishing World, the short-story collection Life Ceremony,…
