International Women’s Day Event: A Conversation with Akutagawa Prize-winning Author MURATA Sayaka

Zoom Webinar (Register here)

To celebrate International Women’s Day this March, Tokyo College’s “Gender, Sexuality & Identity” collaborative research group will host a special webinar event with MURATA Sayaka, author and winner of the 155th Akutagawa Prize for her novel Convenience Store Woman (2016). Through discussing Murata’s writing, experiences, and inspirations, the event hopes to generate reflection on society’s gender and sexuality “norms” and how they shape our world.

Lecture

MURATA Sayaka (Akutagawa Prize-winning Author)

Discussion

“Gender, Sexuality & Identity” Collaborative Research Group (Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

Q&A

Moderator

Xinyu Promio WANG (Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

MURATA Sayaka

Japanese novelist and essayist 

2003: Gunzo Prize for New Writers for the novel Breastfeeding

2009: Norma Literary New Face Prize for the novel Silver Song

2013: Mishima Yukio Prize for the novel Of Bones, Of Body Heat, Of Whitening City

2016: Akutagawa Prize for the novel Convenience Store Woman

Other novels by MURATA Sayaka：Short Short Drops (2021), Marunouchi Magical Girl Miraclina (2020), Earthlings (2018), The Brain World Next Door (2018), The Murder Births (2016), Life Ceremony: Stories (2009)