Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami is a novelist, poet, singer, and actress. She has won many awards including the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, and English translations of her fiction and poetry have appeared in Monkey Business, Granta, Words without Borders, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown (Vintage).