Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami ( Japanese 川 上 未 映 子 , Kawakami Mieko ; born August 29, 1976 in Ōsaka ) is a Japanese singer and writer.
Kawakami's first novel was written on her blog, for her fourth novel Chichi to Ran ( 乳 と 卵 , German: "Breasts and Eggs"), which is about a pubescent girl who wants a breast augmentation, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 2004 excellent. Her works were u. a. Translated into Korean, Chinese and German. As a representative of a young rebellious generation of authors, she evades the cliché of the submissive Japanese woman in her works, which are written in rapid language. In 2010 she received the Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize for Hevun ( ヘ ヴ ン , "Heaven") .
She has been married to the Japanese writer Abe Kazushige since 2011 .
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- ↑ Lisette Gebhardt (Ed.): Yomitai! New literature from Japan . EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86893-057-3 , pp. 188 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kawakami, Mieko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 川 上 未 映 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese singer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |