Person
Mieko Kawakami
- Specialty
- Writing
- Birth
- August 8, 1976 · 50 years
- Origin
- Osaka, Japan
Professional Trajectory
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, Kawakami Mieko, born August 29, 1976) is a Japanese writer and poet from Osaka. Her work has won prestigious Japanese literary awards in several genres. Her 2019 novel Natsu Monogatari, an expanded version of Chichi to Ran, became a bestseller and was translated into English under the title Breasts and Eggs. Kawakami's works have been translated into several languages and distributed throughout the world.
