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Sayaka Murata

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in Inzai, Chiba, Japan

August 14, 1979

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Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 522,720 ratings · 84,667 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 376,912 ratings — published 2016 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 101,109 ratings — published 2018 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 27,889 ratings — published 2019 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.26 avg rating — 10,640 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parti e omicidi by Sayaka Murata, Gianluca Coci (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 3,420 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Clean Marriage by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) 3.52 avg rating — 675 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faith 3.77 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	しろいろの街の、その骨の体温の 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	授乳 by Sayaka Murata, 村田沙耶香 3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	丸の内魔法少女ミラクリーナ by Sayaka Murata, 村田沙耶香 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sayaka Murata (?)

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.

So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

tags: normal, society

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“This society hasn't changed one bit. People who don't fit into the village are expelled: men who don't hunt, women who don't give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn't try to fit in can expect to be meddled with, coerced, and ultimately banished from the village.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

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“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

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The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

18 votes 15.4%

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

17 votes 14.5%

Strange Houses by Uketsu

16 votes 13.7%

I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki

10 votes 8.5%

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

10 votes 8.5%

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki

8 votes 6.8%

Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

8 votes 6.8%

Out by Natsuo Kirino

8 votes 6.8%

The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa

5 votes 4.3%

Malice by Keigo Higashino

5 votes 4.3%

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl by Tomihiko Morimi

5 votes 4.3%

Solo Dance by Kotomi Li

3 votes 2.6%

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

2 votes 1.7%

Daffodil by Osamu Dazai

2 votes 1.7%

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