Sayaka Murata
Sayaka Murata 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. She made her English debut in 2018 with the publication of "Convenience Store Woman", which won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016 in Japan, by Grove Atlantic and Granta. It won Foyles Fiction Book of the Year in 2018 and was sold to 40 territories. Sayaka has been named a Freeman's "Future of New Writing" author and a Vogue Japan Woman of the Year. Her second book "Earthlings" was published in 2021 and the short story collection "Life Ceremony" was published in 2023. Her fourth title "Vanishing" World was released in 2025.
