Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata ( Japanese 村田 沙耶 香 , Murata Sayaka ; born August 14, 1979 in Inzai ) is a Japanese writer. She won the Gunzō Young Talent Prize , the Mishima Prize , the Noma Literature Prize and the Akutagawa Prize . Her book Konbini Ningen is a bestseller in Japan with over 600,000 copies sold; it was also translated into German under the title "Die Ladenhüterin".

biography

Sayaka Murata was 1979 in Inzai in Chiba Prefecture born. As a child, she enjoyed reading science fiction and mystery books; After trying to handwrite a novel in fourth grade, her mother bought her a word processor. Murata's family moved to Tokyo when she switched to high school. She attended the Kashiwa High School attached to the o Nishogakusha University and then studied at Tamagawa University.

During her writing career, Murata worked as a temporary worker in a Konbini . In 2016, Murata was one of the women of the year in Japanese Vogue .

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Murata has received several Japanese literary prizes, including the 2003 Gunzō Young Talent Award for her first novel Junyū (授乳).

Gin'iro no uta (ギ ン イ ロ ノ ウ タ) was nominated for the 2009 Noma Literature Prize. In 2013 she won the Mishima Prize with Shiroiro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (し ろ い ろ の 街 の 、 そ の 骨 の 体温 の) and in 2014 the special prize of the Sense of Gender Award .

Konbini ningen (コ ン ビ ニ 人間) received the renowned Akutagawa Prize in 2016 and was nominated for the Booksellers' Grand Prize . Konbini ningen sold over 600,000 times in Japan and was also translated into German under the title Die Ladenhüterin .

Works (selection)

• Junyū (授乳) Kodansha, 2005, ISBN 978-4-06-212794-3
• Gin'iro no uta (ギ ン イ ロ ノ ウ タ), Shinchosha, 2009, ISBN 978-4-10-310071-3
• Mausu (マ ウ ス), Kodansha, 2008, ISBN 978-4-06-214589-3
• Hoshi ga sū mizu (星 が 吸 う 水), Kodansha, 2010, ISBN 978-4-06-216097-1
• Hakobune (ハ コ ブ ネ), Shueisha, 2011, ISBN 978-4-08-771428-9
• Shiro-iro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (し ろ い ろ の 街 の 、 そ の 骨 骨 の 体温 の), Asahi Shimbun, 2012, ISBN 978-4-02-251011-2
• Tadaima tobira (タ ダ イ マ ト ビ ラ), Shinchosha, 2012, ISBN 978-4-10-310072-0
• Satsujin shussan (殺人 出産), Kodansha, 2014, ISBN 978-4-06-219046-6
• Shōmetsu sekai (消滅 世界), Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2015, ISBN 978-4-309-02432-5
• Konbini ningen (コ ン ビ ニ 人間), Bungeishunju, 2016, ISBN 978-4-16-390618-8
  • The keeper. Novel . Translation by Ursula Gräfe . Structure, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03703-1 .
• Chikyū Seijin (地 球星 人), Shinchosha, 2018 ISBN 978-4-10-310073-7
  • The silkworm room. Novel. Translation by Ursula Gräfe. Structure, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-351-03793-2 .

Reviews

The femundo portal praised "Die Ladenhüterin" as a short, fine and extraordinary novel:

“In her parable, the author, who herself worked in a Konbini for a long time, questions the pressure to perform in Japanese society, which subjects women in particular to the highest demands: make a career, marry early, have children and, by the way, the body and friendships care for. Your protagonist Keiko does not fit into the given grid and thus becomes an outrageous provocation for those around you. "

- femundo.de

literature

• Ronald Düker: The uniform in person . Review, in: Die Zeit, March 1, 2018, p. 46
• Murata Sayaka. in: Special Heisei 1989–2019 - Japanese Literature. 2019: pp. 80–87
• Jonas Lages: Finally alien . Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 10, 2020, p. 11

Web links

• Literature by and about Sayaka Murata in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Sayaka Murata in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sayaka Murata at perlentaucher.de
• Sayaka Murata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Daisuke Kikuchi: Convenience store worker who moonlights as an author wins prestigious Akutagawa Prize , in: Japan Times , July 20, 2016
• Author profile of Murata Sayka (pp. 80–87) in the special issue Heisei 1989–2019 - Japanese literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 村田 沙耶 香 イ ン タ ビ ュ ー 「バ イ ト は 週 3 日 、 週末 は ダ メ 人間 で す. In: Bungeishunjū. August 20, 2017, accessed on July 14, 2018 (jp). 
2. ↑ 印 西 出身 の 村田 沙耶 香 さ ん 入学 時 文集 「い つ か 理想 の 自 分 に」 二 松 松 学 舎 大学 付 属 柏 高 、 母校 も 喜 び に 沸 く ／ 千葉. In: Mainichi. June 21, 2016, accessed on July 14, 2018 (jp). 
3. ^ Leo Lewis: Sayaka Murata: 'My parents don't want to read my books'. In: Financial Times. June 8, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Gunzo Awards. In: Gunzo. Retrieved January 5, 2020 (jp). 
5. ↑ Anna Specchio: Eutopizing the Dystopia. Gender Roles, Motherhood and Reproduction in Murata Sayaka's "Satsujin Shussan" . In: Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory . tape 4 , no. 1 , July 5, 2018, ISSN  2457-8827 , p. 94-108 , doi : 10.24193 / mjcst.2018.5.06 (English).
6. ^ Mishima Yukio Prize (Official Website). Retrieved January 5, 2020 (jp). 
7. ^ Kikuchi Daisuke: Convenience store worker who moonlights as an author wins prestigious Akutagawa. July 20, 2016, accessed April 8, 2018 . 
8. ↑ A woman beyond all convention. femundo.de, April 5, 2018, accessed on May 12, 2018 .