Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer best known for Convenience Store Woman (2016), a novel about Keiko Furukura, who finds her place in the strict routines of a Tokyo convenience store. She has won several major Japanese literary prizes, including the Akutagawa Prize for that novel, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003, and the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013. Her other books include the novels Earthlings and Vanishing World, first published in Japan in 2015, and the short-story collection Life Ceremony.