Sayaka Murata

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sayaka Murata
Occupation	Short Story Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 14, 1979(1979-08-14)
Age	45
Birthplace	Inzai
Country	Japan
Birth City	Chiba Prefecture
Horoscope	Leo

Sayaka Murata Biography

Sayaka Murata is one of the most popular and richest Short Story Writer who was born on August 14, 1979 in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Murata was born in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1979. As a child she often read science fiction and mystery novels borrowed from her brother and mother, and her mother bought her a word processor after she attempted to write a novel by hand in the fourth grade of elementary school. After Murata completed middle school in Inzai, her family moved to Tokyo, where she graduated from Kashiwa High School (attached to Nishogakusha University) and attended Tamagawa University.

Sayaka Murata Net Worth

Sayaka Murata is one of the richest Short Story Writer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sayaka Murata 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.

Her first novel, Jyunyū (Breastfeeding), won the 2003 Gunzo Prize for New Writers. In 2013 she won the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-iro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, Of Body Heat, of Whitening City), and in 2014 the Special Prize of the Sense of Gender Award. In 2016 her 10th novel, Konbini ningen (Convenience Store Person), won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, and she was named one of Vogue Japan’s Women of the Year. Konbini ningen has sold over 600,000 copies in Japan, and in 2018 it became her first book to be translated into English, under the title Convenience Store Woman.

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Facts & Trivia

Stanislau Ranked on the list of most popular Short Story Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Sayaka Murata celebrates birthday on August 14 of every year.

Is Sayaka Murata married?

She lives alone and has never been in a romantic relationship , or even had sex. And she is perfectly happy with all of it. Her creator, Japanese novelist Sayaka Murata, thinks that makes Keiko a true hero.

Does Sayaka Murata still work at a convenience store?

Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize. She continues to work part-time in a convenience store , which inspired this novel.

Is Convenience Store Woman autistic?

Keiko is not identified as autistic in the book , though she recognises she is an “exception” and describes herself as “lacking”. Sadly she believes “Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.

Is Convenience Store Woman a true story?

It captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. The novel won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016. Aside from working as a writer, Murata worked at a convenience store three times a week, basing her novel on her experiences.

Is there romance in Convenience Store Woman?

The novel borrows from Gothic romance , in its pairing of the human and the alluringly, dangerously not. It is a love story, in other words, about a misfit and a store. Or is horror the more accurate genre?