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Sayaka Murata is a Japanese novelist and convenience store clerk. She was born on 14 August 1979 in Inzai, Chiba, Japan. She is best known for her novel Convenience Store Woman, which won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016. Murata graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2003 with a degree in literature. She then worked as a convenience store clerk for eleven years before becoming a full-time writer. Murata has written several novels, including Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, and Grotesque. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, and other languages. Murata has won several awards, including the Akutagawa Prize in 2016 for Convenience Store Woman, the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2018 for Earthlings, and the Tanizaki Junichiro Prize in 2019 for Grotesque. As of 2021, Sayaka Murata's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Occupation Novelist, convenience store clerk
Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 14 August, 1979
Birthday 14 August
Birthplace Inzai, Chiba, Japan
Nationality Japan

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2003

Her first novel, Jyunyū (Breastfeeding), won the 2003 Gunzo Prize for New Writers. In 2013 she won the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-iro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, Of Body Heat, of Whitening City), and in 2014 the Special Prize of the Sense of Gender Award. In 2016 her 10th novel, Konbini ningen (Convenience Store Person), won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, and she was named one of Vogue Japan's Women of the Year. Konbini ningen has sold over 600,000 copies in Japan, and in 2018 it became her first book to be translated into English, under the title Convenience Store Woman.

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Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.

Murata was born in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1979. As a child she often read science fiction and mystery novels borrowed from her brother and mother, and her mother bought her a word processor after she attempted to write a novel by hand in the fourth grade of elementary school. After Murata completed middle school in Inzai, her family moved to Tokyo, where she graduated from Kashiwa High School (attached to Nishogakusha University) and attended Tamagawa University.

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