WRITER

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 170,285 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hiromi Kawakami is the 4,161st most popular writer (up from 4,559th in 2019), the 1,112th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,155th in 2019) and the 89th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Manazuru
Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction
2009
The Nakano Thrift Shop
Tokyo (japan), fiction, Fiction, general
2017
センセイの鞄 (Sensei no kaban)
2008
Strange weather in Tokyo
Fiction, romance, general, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Language and languages
2013
Dragon Palace
Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author)
2023
Manazuru
2013

Page views of Hiromi Kawakamis by language

Over the past year Hiromi Kawakami has had the most page views in the with 64,195 views, followed by English (29,225), and Spanish (12,534). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (285.21%), Egyptian Arabic (153.27%), and Serbian (131.43%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 4,161 out of 7,302. Before her are Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Kató Lomb, Hector Bianciotti, Thaddeus Bulgarin, Eva Illouz, and Osip Senkovsky. After her are Antun Gustav Matoš, Hart Crane, Kamini Roy, Mark Aldanov, Paul Déroulède, and Lajos Kassák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 179. Before her are Paul Weller, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Ricardo Gareca, Helen Fielding, Nik Kershaw, and Mark Moses. After her are Thongchai McIntyre, Margaret Colin, Wafa Sultan, Yan Lianke, Thomas Reiter, and Guillermo Arriaga.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 1,112 out of 6,245. Before her are Uesugi Harunori (1751), Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1904), Yuki Kajiura (1965), Ikue Ōtani (1965), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), and Shinobu Hashimoto (1918). After her are Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Sunao Tawara (1873), Sanpei Shirato (1932), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Ogata Kenzan (1663), and Nozu Michitsura (1840).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hiromi Kawakami ranks 89. Before her are Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Jien (1155), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Michitsuna's mother (935), and Shinichi Hoshi (1926). After her are Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Masuji Ibuse (1898), Yōko Ogawa (1962), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), and Sakyo Komatsu (1931).

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