Hiromi Kawakami

Hiromi Kawakami is a Japanese author born in Tokyo in 1958. Known for her gentle surrealism and keen observation of human relationships, her novel *Under the Eye of the Big Bird*, shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize, imagines a post-human future. Her international reputation rests on novels including *The Nakano Thrift Shop* and *Strange Weather in Tokyo*.