Hiromi Kawakami

Hiromi Kawakami is a Japanese writer known for off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. Her short stories in People from My Neighborhood turn everyday streets toward the uncanny, and Strange Weather in Tokyo and Manazuru sit beside them. She has won several Japanese literary prizes, including the Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Yomiuri, and Izumi Kyoka prizes, and her work has been adapted for film. Born in April 1958, Kawakami is known for fiction that keeps the ordinary and the strange close together.