川上 弘美 | Hiromi Kawakami
Legal name: 川上弘美
Transliterated name: Kawakami, Hiromi
Birth place: Tokyo, Japan
Birth date: 1 April 1958
Language: Japanese
Bibliographic comments: Awarded the 2007 MEXT Minister’s Award for Literature.
Biographic comments: Born as Hiromi Yamada.
Collections
People from My Neighbourhood
2020
Library edition: 2021 edition, 1st printing
Granta Books
ISBN 978-1-84627-699-6
Paperback, 121 pages
£7.99
Notes:
• Translated by Ted Goossen.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: The Secret // Chicken Hell // Grandma // The Office // Brains // The Crooner // The School Principal //
The Love // The Juvenile Delinquent // The Tenement // The Hachirō Lottery // The Magic Spell // Grandpa
Shadows // The Six-Person Flats // The Rivals // The Elf // The Buriers // Banana // Lord of the Flies // The
Baseball Game // Torture // Bass Fishing // Pigeonitis // Sports Day // Fruit // The White Dove // Eye Medicine
// Weightlessness // Hair // Baby // The Family Trade // The Bottomless Swamp // Falsification // Refrigerator //
The Shacks // The Empress
Short fiction chapbooks
Parade
2002
Library edition: November 2019, 1st edition, 1st printing
Soft Skull Press
ISBN 978-1-84627-699-6
Paperback, 79 pages
$11.95
Notes:
• 'Sensei & Tsukiko' series.
• Afterword by Hiromi Kawakami.
• Translated by Allison Markin Powell.
• Illustrated by Takako Yoshitomi.
Record of a Night Too Brief
1996
Library edition: 2021 edition, 1st printing
Pushkin Press
ISBN 978-1-78227-271-7
Paperback, 158 pages
£7.99
Notes:
• Translated by Lucy North.
Fiction: Record of a Night Too Brief // Missing // A Snake Stepped On
Novels
Strange Weather in Tokyo
2001
Library edition: September 2020 edition, 3rd printing
Granta
ISBN 978-1-78378-579-7
Trade paperback, 217 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• 'Sensei & Tsukiko' series.
• Afterword by Hiromi Kawakami.
• Translated by Allison Markin Powell.
• Also contains the short story 'Parade'.
Manazuru
2006
< September 2010, 1st English language edition
Counterpoint
ISBN 978-1-58243-627-2
Hardcover, 224 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Translated by Michael Emmerich.
