Many of her essays, short stories and novel extracts have been translated into English. Kawakami also included magical realism and fantasy into her works. She took care in detailing common social interactions and explored emotional uncertainty. It could be romance, familial, professional or platonic relationships. Nishino Yukihiko no Koi to Bōken, her story, was made into a film in 2014.Īs a writer Hiromi Kawakami stands as one who comprehended the bond between ordinary people. She reworked on her story, kept the original plot and incorporated the happenings of Fukushima into the plot. Kawakami revisited her first novel Kamasima after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. She wrote many books and received many awards, the latest being ‘Medal With Purple Ribbon’ in 2019. Two years later in 1996 she won Japan’s prestigious award Akutagawa Prize for the book Hebi Wo Fumi which was later translated into English, Record of a Night Too Brief. It was at the age of 36 in 1994, Kawakami she made a foray into literary fiction and her book was titled Kamisama meaning God. Her first short story also appeared in the same magazine in 1980. After her graduation she began to work for NW-SF, a Japanese science fiction magazine. She studied and got her graduation from Ochanomizu Women’s College in the year 1980. Hiromi Kawakami spent her early days in the Takaido neighbourhood of Suginami City.
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