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Sayaka Murata
The super-successful novelist Sayaka Murata resides in Tokyo but lives on a star with 30 invisible friends. Welcome to her world.
If Sayaka Murata were a character in one of her own novels, critics would complain she wasn’t a plausible protagonist. She lives, she tells me when we meet in Frankfurt in late October, on a star with 30 invisible friends – not imaginary, she corrects me, “because that would imply they don’t exist.” To her, normality as decreed by society is “a form of madness”. Friends describe her to me as an alien – her incredible imagination somehow makes her not human.
This is the same Sayaka who shot to global fame in 2018 after Konbini Ningen, which won Japan’s biggest literary prize, the biannual Akutagawa, in 2016, was translated into English as Convenience Store Woman. It was her 10th novel in Japanese but her first for anyone reading in English – superbly translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori – and has now sold more than 2 million copies
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- Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born Aug) is a Japanese writer.
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- The super-successful novelist Sayaka Murata resides in Tokyo but lives on a star with 30 invisible friends.
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| sayaka murata vanishing world | Japanese writer Sayaka Murata was born in Inzai in 1979. |
| sayaka murata married | Sayaka’s father was a judge; her mother, who is also still alive, was a housewife when Sayaka was young, like many women then. |
| sayaka murata writing style | The author of Convenience Store Woman talks about working behind the counter, rejecting marriage and children, and her dark new tale of murder and cannibalism. |
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- In the Japanese media, Murata is sometimes called “Crazy Sayaka”—a nickname first bestowed on her affectionately by friends but one that she fears borders on caricature.