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Hiromi Kawakami

1958 - Today

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Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美, Kawakami Hiromi, born 1958) is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiromi Kawakami has received more than 172,639 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hiromi Kawakami is the 4,574th most popular writer (up from 4,750th in 2019), the 1,158th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,168th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 46.73

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 4,574 out of 5,755. Before her are Ludwig Thoma, Ndre Mjeda, Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Javier Cercas, Roy Jacobsen, and Ludwig Bechstein. After her are Richard Powers, David Weber, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Eleanor Farjeon, Yurii Andrukhovych, and Juan de la Cueva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 209. Before her are Marlies Göhr, Greg Germann, Hussein Saeed, Miki Biasion, Wendy Makkena, and Peter Altmaier. After her are Richard Burgi, Lolita Flores, Olivier Marchal, Mark Cuban, Rosa Liksom, and Manu Katché.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 1,158 out of 6,048. Before her are Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Izumi Sakai (1967), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Kazuo Hasegawa (1908), and Ikuo Matsumoto (1941). After her are Masatoshi Shima (1943), Kikuko Inoue (1964), Takayuki Kuwata (1941), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Yoshinori Shigematsu (1930), and LiSA (1987).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 98. Before her are Koji Suzuki (1957), Yōko Ogawa (1962), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Riichi Yokomitsu (1898), and Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868). After her are Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Marie Kondo (1984), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), Michio Mado (1909), Yoko Tawada (1960), and Takashi Tezuka (1960).

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