Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (b. 1979) is a Japanese author. She has received, among other honors, the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, as well as the Gunzo, Noma, and Mishima Yukio prizes, and Vogue Japan’s Woman of the Year award. Murata is particularly known as a masterful portrayer of the experience of being an outsider and of our own peculiar social order.