
Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami is the acclaimed author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of Time’s Best 10 Books of 2020. Her other novels, translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio, shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, and All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. In 2024, Sisters in Yellow won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Her books, translated into forty languages, are known for their insights into the female body, and philosophical questions surrounding gender, class, and ethics in modern society. Born in Osaka, Kawakami lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Last Update: 2025
Brüste und Eier
Dumont
Köln, 2020
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Heaven
Dumont
Köln, 2021
[Ü: Katja Busson]
All die Liebenden der Nacht
Dumont
Köln, 2023
[Ü: Katja Busson]
Das gelbe Haus
Dumont
Köln, 2025
[Ü: Katja Busson]