
Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami
Born in Japan, Mieko Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006. Her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World (2007) was awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. In 2008, Kawakami published Breasts and Eggs as a novella and won Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. In 2016, she was selected as Granta Best of Young Japanese Novelist. Kawakami has also written novels Heaven and the newly expanded Breasts and Eggs, her first novel to be published in English. She lives in Tokyo.
Mieko Kawakami is published by Europa Editions
Photo credit: YUTO KUDO/ Madame Figaro Japon
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October 27, 2021
at 7pm
Reading
Heaven: Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami and Merve Emre
October 27, 2021 at 7pm

October 29, 2020
at 12pm
TIFA Event
Skin Hunger: Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami
October 29, 2020 at 12pm

October 24, 2020
at 7pm
TIFA Event
Overcoming Expectations: Mieko Kawakami on Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami and Madeleine Thien
October 24, 2020 at 7pm