Megumu Sagisawa

Sagisawa also wrote dramas in collaboration with fellow dramatist Hidetake Kobayashi, with whom she co-authored the novel La vie en Rose in 2004. She also worked with him in the Dolphin Group, a theater company that produces comedies, until her death in 2004. Her works of fiction have been described as focusing on topics such as the complex relationships between people, and the "anxieties of young people".

Sagisawa died on April 11, 2004, while at her residence in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.

Sagisawa's grandmother was a first-generation Korean immigrant. She discusses her Korean ancestry in the 1994 essay volume Kenari mo hana, sakura mo hana (Forsythias are flowers, cherryblossoms too) . She became married at twenty-one years old, and became divorced two years later.

In 1987, she published her debut novel Kawaberi no michi, which received favorable attention due to its subtle portrayal of the struggles of adolescent life. She received the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers for the novel, and, at eighteen years old, became the youngest person to be awarded the prize. She then began studying Russian at the Sophia University Department of Foreign Studies in the same year, however, she left the university before graduating. In 1989, she published the novel Kaerenu hitobito, which became a candidate for the Akutagawa Prize, but did not win the prize. She was awarded the 1992 Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for her novel Kakeru shōnen (駆ける少年 ). She began studying Korean language abroad at Yonsei University in 1993.

Megumu Sagisawa (鷺沢萠 , June 8, 1968 – April 11, 2004) was a Japanese novelist and dramatist. She won the 1992 Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for Kakeru shōnen (駆ける少年 ).

Megumu Sagisawa was born in Tokyo, Japan on June 8, 1968.