Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami’s first novella My Ego, My Teeth, and the World was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize and awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. The following year, she published Breasts and Eggs/em> as a short novella. It won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prestigious literary honour, and earned praise from the acclaimed writers Yoko Ogawa and Haruki Murakami. The newly expanded Breasts and Eggs is her first novel to be published in English. She is the author of two further novels, Heaven and The Night Belongs to Lovers, both of which will be published by Europa Editions. She lives in Japan.