WRITER

Mieko Kawakami

1976 - Today

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Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, Kawakami Mieko, born August 29, 1976) is a Japanese writer and poet from Osaka. Her work has won prestigious Japanese literary awards in several genres, including the 138th Akutagawa Prize for her novella Chichi to Ran (乳と卵), the 2013 Tanizaki Prize for her short story collection Ai no yume to ka (愛の夢とか) (Dreams of Love, etc.), and the 2008 Nakahara Chūya Prize for Contemporary Poetry for Sentan de, sasuwa sasareruwa soraeewa (先端で さすわ さされるわ そらええわ). Her 2019 novel Natsu Monogatari, an expanded version of Chichi to Ran, became a bestseller and was translated into English under the title Breasts and Eggs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mieko Kawakami has received more than 354,030 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mieko Kawakami is the 6,151st most popular writer (down from 6,045th in 2019), the 1,635th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,796th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 350k

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  • 50.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mieko Kawakami ranks 6,151 out of 7,302. Before her are Bernardine Evaristo, John Logan, Ahmad NikTalab, J. G. Farrell, Pia Tafdrup, and Patrick Grainville. After her are Walker Percy, Maja Bošković-Stulli, John Addington Symonds, Jaime Bayly, E. W. Hornung, and Daniel Kehlmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Mieko Kawakami ranks 250. Before her are Sergej Ćetković, Makoto Yukimura, Liv Kristine, Ja Rule, Troy Baker, and Stjepan Tomas. After her are Yui Horie, Jake Sullivan, Mirsad Türkcan, Juanito, França, and Tatyana Lebedeva.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mieko Kawakami ranks 1,635 out of 6,245. Before her are Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi (1958), Masaaki Mori (1961), Beatriz (null), Yukari Tamura (1978), Momo Hirai (1996), and Noriko Sakai (1971). After her are Yui Horie (1976), Kenji Honnami (1964), Masakazu Morita (1972), Samaire Armstrong (1980), Eiji Ueda (1953), and Hiroyuki Imaishi (1971).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Mieko Kawakami ranks 112. Before her are Aya Kitō (1962), Michio Mado (1909), Marie Kondo (1984), Gen Urobuchi (1972), Tomoji Abe (1903), and Reki Kawahara (1974). After her are Jun Maeda (1975), Reiko Yoshida (1967), Phyllis A. Whitney (1903), Sayaka Murata (1979), Nagaru Tanigawa (1970), and Sui Ishida (1986).

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