Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara (born August 8, 1983, in Tokyo) is a Japanese novelist whose debut novel Hebi ni piasu (Snakes and Earrings, 2004) won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize in 2003 and the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2004, making her one of the youngest recipients; the book sold over a million copies and was adapted into a film. family.