WRITER

Sayaka Murata

1979 - Today

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Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sayaka Murata has received more than 301,331 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sayaka Murata is the 6,606th most popular writer (down from 6,259th in 2019), the 1,914th most popular biography from Japan (up from 2,051st in 2019) and the 116th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sayaka Murata ranks 6,606 out of 7,302Before her are Fedor Samokhin, Steven S. DeKnight, Johanna Sinisalo, Robert Seethaler, Paul Dini, and Louis de Bernières. After her are Sarah Josepha Hale, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ann C. Crispin, Dulce Chacón, Nat Hentoff, and John Patrick Shanley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Sayaka Murata ranks 348Before her are Giorgio Pantano, Édison Méndez, JoAnna Garcia, Marco Caneira, Reinaldo da Cruz Oliveira, and Joe Chen. After her are Yukie Nakama, Eric Johnson, Radoslav Kováč, Raymond Lam, Lindy Booth, and Paola Rey.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sayaka Murata ranks 1,914 out of 6,245Before her are Tenma Shibuya (1969), Yūji Ueda (1967), Yuko Oita (1969), Atsuto Uchida (1988), Takako Matsu (1977), and Takumi Horiike (1965). After her are Yukie Nakama (1979), Masahiro Nakai (1972), Kento Yamazaki (1994), Yui Ishikawa (1989), Takeshi Watanabe (1972), and Sōichirō Hoshi (1972).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Sayaka Murata ranks 116Before her are Tomoji Abe (1903), Reki Kawahara (1974), Mieko Kawakami (1976), Jun Maeda (1975), Reiko Yoshida (1967), and Phyllis A. Whitney (1903). After her are Nagaru Tanigawa (1970), Sui Ishida (1986), Kaori Ekuni (1964), and Hitomi Kanehara (1983).