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Natsuko Imamura

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Photo: © Tetsuya Higashikawa, Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc

About the Author

Natsuko Imamura is one of Japan’s most exciting women writers. Nominated three times for the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan, she won it in 2019 for The Woman in the Purple Skirt. A self-professed fan of Yoko Ogawa’s, she has been called “a second Sayaka Murata” (the author of Convenience Store Woman) for her use of acerbic humor and satire. Born in Hiroshima, she now lives in Osaka with her husband and their daughter. Like the main character in The Woman in the Purple Skirt, she has worked in a hotel as a housekeeper.

Books by Natsuko Imamura

Books by Natsuko Imamura published by Steerforth Press

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