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{{short description|Japanese writer (born 1979)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Sayaka Murata
| native_name = 村田沙耶香
| image = Sayaka Murata DSC05864 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Murata at the LiteratureXchange Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2022
| native_name_lang = ja
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|08|14}}
| language = Japanese
| genre = [[Fiction]]
| education = [[Tamagawa University]]
| notable_works = {{plainlist|
* ''Gin'iro no Uta''
* ''Shiroiro no Machi no, Sono Hone no Taion no''
* ''[[Convenience Store Woman]]''
}}
| awards = {{plainlist|
*[[Akutagawa Prize]]
*[[Mishima Yukio Prize]]
*[[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Literary New Face Prize]]
*[[Gunzo Prize for New Writers]]}}
| signature = Sayaka Murata signature.svg
}}

'''Sayaka Murata''' (村田沙耶香 ''Murata Sayaka''; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She is best known for the international bestseller ''[[Convenience Store Woman]]'' (2016) which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide. Murata has won many major literary prizes in Japan, including the [[Gunzo Prize for New Writers]] in 2003, the [[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Literary New Face Prize]] in 2009, the [[Mishima Yukio Prize]] in 2013, and the [[Akutagawa Prize]] for ''Convenience Store Woman'' in 2016. All the English translations of her work are done by [[Ginny Tapley Takemori]]. In addition to ''Convenience Store Woman'', Murata's first book to be published in English, Takemori has translated the novels ''Earthlings'' and ''Vanishing World'', the short-story collection ''Life Ceremony'', the short stories "Faith", "Survival", and "A Clean Marriage", as well as the ''[[New York Times]]'' published [[opinion piece]] "The Future of Sex Lives in All of Us", among others.

Murata's latest book to be published in English is the 2025 novel ''Vanishing World'', originally published in Japan in 2015. Her latest work in Japanese has been the 2022 short-story collection ''Faith'', of which two stories were translated by Takemori individually.

== Biography ==
Murata was born in [[Inzai]], [[Chiba Prefecture]], Japan, in 1979. Her father was a judge and her mother was a housewife. Murata has said she did not have a happy childhood. She started writing stories at age 10.<ref name=guardian-20250419>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/19/marriage-feels-like-a-hostage-situation-and-motherhood-a-curse-japanese-author-sayaka-murata |title=Interview: 'Marriage feels like a hostage situation and motherhood a curse': Japanese author Sayaka Murata |last=Allardice |first=Lisa |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 April 2025 |access-date=19 April 2025}}</ref> As a child, she often read science fiction and mystery novels borrowed from her brother and mother, and her mother bought her a word processor after she attempted to write a novel by hand in the fourth grade of elementary school.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 20, 2017 |title=村田沙耶香インタビュー「バイトは週3日、週末はダメ人間です」 |language=ja |work=Bungeishunjū |url=http://bunshun.jp/articles/-/3687 |access-date=June 14, 2018 |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615004753/http://bunshun.jp/articles/-/3687 |url-status=live }}</ref> After Murata completed middle school in [[Inzai]], her family moved to [[Tokyo]], where she graduated from Kashiwa High School (attached to [[Nishogakusha University]]) and studied art curation at [[Tamagawa University]].<ref name=guardian-20250419/><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 21, 2016 |title=印西出身の村田沙耶香さん入学時文集「いつか理想の自分に」二松学舎大学付属柏高、母校も喜びに沸く／千葉 |language=ja |work=Mainichi |url=http://mainichi.jp/articles/20160721/ddl/k12/040/584000c |access-date=June 14, 2018 |archive-date=May 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513102742/https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160721/ddl/k12/040/584000c |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[File:Kashiwa Junior & Senior High School Attached to Nishogakusha University.JPG|thumb|Kashiwa High School]]

Her first novel, ''Jyunyū'' (''Breastfeeding''), won the 2003 [[Gunzo Prize for New Writers]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Gunzo Awards |url=http://gunzo.kodansha.co.jp/awards |access-date=June 14, 2018 |website=Gunzo |language=ja |archive-date=May 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513102735/http://gunzo.kodansha.co.jp/awards |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, she won the [[Mishima Yukio Prize]] for ''Shiro-iro no machi no, sono hone no taion no'' (''Of Bones, Of Body Heat, Of Whitening City''), and in 2014 the Special Prize of the [[Sense of Gender Award]].<ref name="Specchio 94–108">{{Cite journal |last=Specchio |first=Anna |date=July 5, 2018 |title=Eutopizing the Dystopia. Gender Roles, Motherhood and Reproduction in Murata Sayaka's "Satsujin Shussan" |journal=Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=94–108 |doi=10.24193/mjcst.2018.5.06 |issn=2457-8827 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=| 新潮社 |url=https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/mishimasho/ |website=新潮社コーポレートサイト |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-date=2022-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023063201/https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/mishimasho/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2016, her 10th novel, ''Konbini ningen'' (''Convenience Store Woman''), won the prestigious [[Akutagawa Prize]],<ref name="akutagawa">{{Cite news |last=Kikuchi |first=Daisuke |date=July 20, 2016 |title=Convenience store worker who moonlights as an author wins prestigious Akutagawa Prize |work=The Japan Times |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/20/national/convenience-store-worker-who-moonlights-as-novelist-wins-prestigious-akutagawa-prize/ |access-date=April 8, 2018 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108040507/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/20/national/convenience-store-worker-who-moonlights-as-novelist-wins-prestigious-akutagawa-prize/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and she was named one of [[Vogue Japan]]'s Women of the Year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=Nov 24, 2016 |title=高畑充希、飛躍の一年を回顧「台風の目にいるような感じ」 |work=Oricon News |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2081875/full/ |access-date=February 12, 2018 |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623063143/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2081875/full/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Konbini ningen'' has sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan<ref name="bookseller-Jan-2019">{{Cite web |last=Tagholm |first=Roger |date=January 31, 2019 |title=Granta buys new Sayaka Murata novel |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/granta-buys-new-murata-novel-942086 |access-date=February 17, 2021 |publisher=thebookseller.com |archive-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117012551/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/granta-buys-new-murata-novel-942086 |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 2018 it became her first book to be translated into English, under the title ''[[Convenience Store Woman]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Freeman |first=John |date=November 16, 2017 |title=In Praise of Sayaka Murata |url=https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-sayaka-murata/ |access-date=February 17, 2021 |website=Literary Hub |archive-date=March 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329031142/https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-sayaka-murata/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It has been translated into more than 30 languages.<ref name="bookseller-Jan-2019" />

Murata worked part-time as a [[convenience store]] clerk in Tokyo for eighteen years until 2017.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Rich |first=Motoko |date=June 11, 2018 |title=For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal |work=New York Times |type=subscription required |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/books/japanese-novelist-sayaka-murata-convenience-store-woman.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 22, 2021 |archive-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523135901/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/books/japanese-novelist-sayaka-murata-convenience-store-woman.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She has lived in [[Shinjuku]], Tokyo since she was a student.<ref name=guardian-20250419/>

== Writing style ==
Murata's writing explores the different consequences of nonconformity in society for men and women, particularly with regard to gender roles, parenthood, and sex.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rich |first=Motoko |date=June 11, 2018 |title=For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/books/japanese-novelist-sayaka-murata-convenience-store-woman.html |access-date=June 14, 2018 |archive-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523135901/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/books/japanese-novelist-sayaka-murata-convenience-store-woman.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of the themes and character backstories in her writing come from her daily observations as a part-time [[convenience store]] worker.<ref name=":1" /> Societal acceptance of sexlessness in various forms, including [[asexuality]], voluntary and involuntary [[celibacy]], especially within marriage, recurs as a theme in several of her works, such as the novels ''Shōmetsu sekai'' (''Dwindling World'') and ''Konbini ningen'' (''Convenience Store Woman''), and the short story "A Clean Marriage."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fallon |first=Claire |date=June 12, 2018 |title=Amid All The Talk Of Incels, A Solitary Woman's Story |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/convenience-store-woman_us_5b198ae5e4b0adfb8267207e |access-date=June 13, 2018 |website=HuffPost |archive-date=June 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613164251/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/convenience-store-woman_us_5b198ae5e4b0adfb8267207e |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Tapley Takamori |first=Ginny |date=April 24, 2014 |title=Translator's Note: A Clean Marriage |url=https://granta.com/a-clean-marriage/ |access-date=June 14, 2018 |website=Granta |archive-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725203709/http://granta.com/a-clean-marriage/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Murata is also known for her frank depictions of adolescent sexuality in work such as ''Gin iro no uta'' (''Silver Song'')<ref>{{Cite web |title=Silver Song |url=http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/899-silver-song |access-date=June 14, 2018 |website=Books from Japan |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615111119/http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/899-silver-song |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''Shiro-iro no machi no, sono hone no taion no'' (''Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City'').<ref>{{Cite web |title=Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City |url=http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/2078-of-bones-of-body-heat-of-whitening-city |access-date=June 14, 2018 |website=Books from Japan |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615111120/http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/2078-of-bones-of-body-heat-of-whitening-city |url-status=live }}</ref> In ''Satsujin shussan'', she depicts a future society which may be seen as dystopic.<ref name="Specchio 94–108" />

== Themes ==
=== Challenging taboos ===
Murata often places challenging taboos at the forefront of her most popular works.<ref name="nippon.com">{{Cite web |date=2020-11-04 |title=Aliens and Alienation: The Taboo-Challenging Worlds of "Earthlings" Author Murata Sayaka |url=https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/e00175/ |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=nippon.com |language=en |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205073715/https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/e00175/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The title ''Earthlings'' focuses on an 11-year-old girl named Natsuki, with her boyfriend and cousin, Yuu, who believe themselves to be aliens due to their tumultuous relationship with their family. The story quickly develops into a harsh tale containing themes of "sexual abuse, murder, and cannibalism."<ref name="nippon.com" /> Murata states on challenging taboos: "For example, murder is said to be taboo, but then why is it considered acceptable if it’s legitimate self-defense or capital punishment? I sensed the ambiguity in my childish mind. And I felt a physical repulsion and fear inside me toward incest and cannibalism, although I didn’t know why they were forbidden. I wondered where those emotions came from.”<ref name="nippon.com" /> Murata believes that the more she writes about the questioning of these taboos, the closer she will come to the "real truth of things."<ref name="nippon.com" />

=== Conformity ===
The topic of conformity is common in Japanese literature and culture, and Murata frequently questions its validity, especially in ''Convenience Store Woman.''<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |date=2018-06-11 |title="Convenience Store Woman": Life by the Book |url=https://www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/bg900003/ |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=nippon.com |language=en |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205073714/https://www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/bg900003/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In this novel, Keiko, a part-time convenience store worker, is confronted by societal expectations to marry and pursue a traditional career.<ref name="newyorker.com">{{Cite magazine |date=2018-06-21 |title=Sayaka Murata's Eerie "Convenience Store Woman" Is a Love Story Between a Misfit and a Store |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sayaka-murata-eerie-convenience-store-woman-is-a-love-story-between-a-misfit-and-a-store |access-date=2021-12-05 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129141657/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sayaka-murata-eerie-convenience-store-woman-is-a-love-story-between-a-misfit-and-a-store |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Asexuality and fictosexuality ===
Many of Murata's main heroines find themselves in asexual relationships, such as Natsuki in ''Earthlings'' and Keiko in ''Convenience Store Woman.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hayes |first=Stephanie |date=2020-11-09 |title=A Dystopian Novel That Challenges Taboos and Refuses Judgment |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/11/sayaka-murata-earthlings-gruesome-dystopia/617007/ |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=The Atlantic |language=en |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205073714/https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/11/sayaka-murata-earthlings-gruesome-dystopia/617007/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=2018-07-23 |title='Convenience Store Woman' Casts a Fluorescent Spell |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/books/review-convenience-store-woman-sayaka-murata.html |access-date=2021-12-05 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205073714/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/books/review-convenience-store-woman-sayaka-murata.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Asexuality is a theme that coincides with questioning the standards society typically expects from citizens, a notion that Murata explores frequently.<ref name="nippon.com" /> Murata has stated that "[[fictosexuality]] is very strong in [her]"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Batuman |first=Elif |date=2025-04-07 |title=Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/sayaka-muratas-alien-eye |access-date=2025-10-05 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> and has written novels that include themes of asexuality and fictosexuality, such as ''Vanishing World''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Niall |date=2025-05-17 |title=Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata: Review by Niall Harrison |url=https://locusmag.com/review/vanishing-world-by-sayaka-murata-review-by-niall-harrison/ |access-date=2025-10-05 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Global warming and climate change ===
Murata addresses the subject of global warming in her short story, "Survival", which was included in an anthology titled ''Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change''. The story details a dystopian Japanese society and describes what the world could look like if climate change is left unaddressed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Trip Through a Wounded Landscape: On John Freeman's "Tales of Two Planets" |url=https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/2020/10/21/a-trip-through-a-wounded-landscape-on-john-freemans-tales-of-two-planets |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=Cleveland Review of Books |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205073715/https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/2020/10/21/a-trip-through-a-wounded-landscape-on-john-freemans-tales-of-two-planets |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Witze |first=Alexandra |date=2018-11-20 |title=Why extreme rains are gaining strength as the climate warms |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07447-1 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=563 |issue=7732 |pages=458–460 |doi=10.1038/d41586-018-07447-1 |pmid=30459384 |bibcode=2018Natur.563..458W |s2cid=53722768 |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-date=2023-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827155224/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07447-1 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ro |first=Christine |title=The animals that will survive climate change |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en |archive-date=2021-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205073714/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
===Short story collections===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="width: 100%;"
|+ Short story collections by Sayaka Murata
|-
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Title
! scope="col" style="width:3%;" | Year
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Original [[ISBN]]
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Original publisher
! scope="col" style="width:34%;" | Stories
! scope="col" style="width:33%;" | Notes
!scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref(s).|Reference(s)}}
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Junyū''|授乳||lit. ''Breastfeeding''}}
| 2005
| {{isbnt|9784062127943}}
| Kodansha
|
* {{nihongo|"Junyū"|授乳||"Breastfeeding"}}
* {{nihongo|"Koibito"|コイビト||"Sweetheart"}}
* {{nihongo|"Otogi no Heya"|御伽の部屋||"The Fairytale Room"}}
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Gin'iro no Uta''|ギンイロノウタ||lit. ''Silver Song''}}
| 2009
| {{isbnt|9784103100713}}
| Shinchosha
|
* {{nihongo|"Hikari no Ashioto"|ひかりのあしおと||"Footsteps of Light"}}
* {{nihongo|"Gin'iro no Uta"|ギンイロノウタ||"Silver Song"}}
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Hoshi ga Sū Mizu''|星が吸う水||lit. ''Water for the Stars''}}
| 2010
| {{isbnt|9784062160971}}
| Kodansha
|
* {{nihongo|"Hoshi ga Sū Mizu"|星が吸う水||"Water for the Stars"}}
* {{nihongo|"Gamazumi Kōkai"|ガマズミ航海||"Linden Arrowwood Voyage"}}
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Satsujin Shussan''|殺人出産||lit. ''The Murder Births''}}
| 2014
| {{isbnt|9784062190466}}
| Kodansha
|
* {{nihongo|"Satsujin Shussan"|殺人出産||"The Murder Births"}}
* {{nihongo|"Triple"|トリプル|Toripuru}}
* {{nihongo|"A Clean Marriage"|清潔な結婚|Seiketsu na Kekkon}}
* {{nihongo|"Final Days"|余命|Yomei}}
|
* "A Clean Marriage" was published in English in ''Granta 127: Japan'' in 2014, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murata |first=Sayaka |date=April 24, 2014 |title=A Clean Marriage |url=https://granta.com/a-clean-marriage/ |access-date=June 14, 2018 |website=Granta |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129141658/https://granta.com/a-clean-marriage/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "Final Days" was published in English in ''Freeman's: Change'' in 2021, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite book |date=October 12, 2021 |title=Freeman's: Change |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/freemans-change/ |access-date=May 27, 2022 |website=Grove Atlantic |archive-date=May 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527190504/https://groveatlantic.com/book/freemans-change/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''[[Life Ceremony]]''|生命式|''Seimeishiki''}}
| 2019
| {{isbnt|9784309028309}}
| Kawade Shobo Shinsha
|
* {{nihongo|"A First-Rate Material"|素敵な素材|Suteki na Sozai}}
* {{nihongo|"A Magnificent Spread"|素晴らしい食卓|Subarashī Shokutaku}}
* {{nihongo|"A Summer Night's Kiss"|夏の夜の口付け|Natsu no Yoru no Kuchizuke}}
* {{nihongo|"Two's Family"|二人家族|Futari Kazoku}}
* {{nihongo|"The Time of the Large Star"|大きな星の時間|Ōki na Hoshi no Jikan}}
* {{nihongo|"Poochie"|ポチ|Pochi}}
* {{nihongo|"Life Ceremony"|生命式|Seimeishiki}}
* {{nihongo|"Body Magic"|魔法のからだ|Mahō no Karada}}
* {{nihongo|"Lover on the Breeze"|かぜのこいびと|Kaze no Koibito}}
* {{nihongo|"Puzzle"|パズル|Pazuru}}
* {{nihongo|"Eating the City"|街を食べる|Machi o Taberu}}
* {{nihongo|"Hatchling"|孵化|Fuka}}
|
* The collection was published in English by Grove Atlantic in 2022 ({{ISBN|9780802159588}}), translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Life Ceremony |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/life-ceremony/ |access-date=May 27, 2022 |website=Grove Atlantic |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529041201/https://groveatlantic.com/book/life-ceremony/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "A First-Rate Material" was published in English in ''Freeman's: The Future of New Writing'' in 2017, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2017 |title=Freeman's: The Future of New Writing |url=https://www.freemansbiannual.com/copy-of-freeman-s-home |access-date=May 27, 2022 |website=Freeman's |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129141657/https://www.freemansbiannual.com/copy-of-freeman-s-home |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
* "A Summer Night's Kiss" was published in English in ''Astra: Ecstasy'' in 2022, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murata |first=Sayaka |date=April 12, 2022 |title=A Summer Night's Kiss |url=https://astra-mag.com/articles/a-summer-nights-kiss/ |access-date=May 27, 2022 |publisher=Astra House |type=Literary magazine |isbn=9781662619007 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520071522/https://astra-mag.com/articles/a-summer-nights-kiss/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Marunouchi Mahō Shōjo Mirakurīna''|丸の内魔法少女ミラクリーナ||lit. ''Mirakurīna, the Marunouchi Magical Girl''}}
| 2020
| {{isbnt|9784041084236}}
| Kadokawa
|
* {{nihongo|"Marunouchi Mahō Shōjo Mirakurīna"|丸の内魔法少女ミラクリーナ||"Mirakurīna the Marunouchi Magical Girl"}}
* {{nihongo|"Himitsu no Hanazono"|秘密の花園||"Secret Flower Garden"}}
* {{nihongo|"Musei Kyōshitsu"|無性教室||"Genderless Classroom"}}
* {{nihongo|"Hen'yō"|変容||"Transformation"}}
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Faith''|信仰|''Shinkō''}}
| 2022
| {{isbnt|9784163915500}}
| Bungeishunjū
|
* {{nihongo|"Faith"|信仰|Shinkō}}
* {{nihongo|"Survival"|生存|Seizon}}
* {{nihongo|"Tsuchi no Shō Uruoi Okoru"|土脉潤起||"Rain Moistens the Soil"}}{{efn|The name of the first pentad in the ''[[usui]]'' [[solar term]], corresponding to February 19–23}}
* {{nihongo|"Karera no Wakusei e Kaette Iku Koto"|彼らの惑星へ帰っていくこと||"Returning to Their Planet"}}
* {{nihongo|"Culture Shock"|カルチャーショック|Karuchā Shokku}}
* {{nihongo|"Kimochiyosa Toiu Tsumi"|気持ちよさという罪||"The Sin of Feeling Good"}}
* {{nihongo|"Kakanakatta Shōsetsu"|書かなかった小説||"The Story That Wasn't Written"}}
* {{nihongo|"Saigo no Tenrankai"|最後の展覧会||"The Last Exhibition"}}
|
* "Faith" was published in English in ''Granta: The Online Edition'' in 2020, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murata |first=Sayaka |date=November 18, 2020 |title=Faith |url=https://granta.com/faith-sayaka-murata/ |access-date=May 27, 2022 |website=Granta |archive-date=June 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625225150/https://granta.com/faith-sayaka-murata/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "Survival" was published in English in ''Tales of Two Planets'' in 2022 ({{ISBN|9780143133926}}), translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tales of Two Planets: 9780143133926 |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599674/tales-of-two-planets-by-edited-by-john-freeman/ |access-date=May 27, 2022 |website=Penguin Random House |archive-date=May 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527190502/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599674/tales-of-two-planets-by-edited-by-john-freeman/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|}

===Novels===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="width: 100%;"
|+ Novels by Sayaka Murata
|-
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Title
! scope="col" style="width:3%;" | Year
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Original [[ISBN]]
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Original publisher
! scope="col" style="width:33%;" | Notes
!scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref(s).|Reference(s)}}
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Mouse''|マウス|''Mausu''}}
| 2008
| {{isbnt|9784062145893}}
| Kodansha
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Hakobune''|ハコブネ||lit. ''Ark''}}
| 2011
| {{isbnt|9784087714289}}
| Shueisha
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Tadaima Tobira''|タダイマトビラ||lit. ''A Welcoming Door''}}
| 2012
| {{isbnt|9784103100720}}
| Shinchosha
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Shiroiro no Machi no, Sono Hone no Taion no''|しろいろの街の、その骨の体温の||lit. ''Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City''}}
| 2012
| {{isbnt|9784022510112}}
| Asahi Shimbun
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Shōmetsu Sekai''|消滅世界||lit. ''Dwindling World''}}
| 2015
| {{isbnt|9784309024325}}
| Kawade Shobo Shinsha
| Published in English as ''Vanishing World'' by Grove Atlantic in 2025 ({{ISBN|9780802164667}}), translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/vanishing-world/ |title=Vanishing World |website=Grove Atlantic |trans-title= |access-date=November 24, 2024 }}</ref>
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''[[Convenience Store Woman]]''|コンビニ人間|''Konbini Ningen''}}
| 2016
| {{isbnt|9784163906188}}
| Bungeishunjū
| Published in English by Grove Atlantic in 2018 ({{ISBN|9780802128256}}), translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Convenience Store Woman |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/convenience-store-woman/ |access-date=June 6, 2018 |website=Grove Atlantic |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307061136/https://groveatlantic.com/book/convenience-store-woman/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Earthlings''|地球星人|''Chikyū Seijin''}}
| 2018
| {{isbnt|9784103100737}}
| Shinchosa
| Published in English by Grove Atlantic in 2020 ({{ISBN|9780802157003}}), translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earthlings |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/earthlings/ |access-date=March 10, 2021 |website=Grove Atlantic |archive-date=January 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128003356/https://groveatlantic.com/book/earthlings/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''Kawarimi''|{{ruby-ja|変半身|かわりみ}}||lit. ''Changeability''}}
| 2019
| {{isbnt|9784480804914}}
| Chikuma Shobō
|
|
|- style="text-align: center;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | {{nihongo|''World 99''|世界99}}
| 2025
| {{isbnt|9784087718799}}
| Shueisha
|
|
|}

=== Other works===
* "Chameleon" (photoessay with [[Tomoko Sawada]]), English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori, ''Granta 144: Art & Photography'', 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-08-09 |title=Chameleon |url=https://granta.com/chameleon/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Granta |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203122722/https://granta.com/chameleon/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "The Future of Sex Lives in All of Us" (article), English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori, ''The New York Times'', 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murata |first=Sayaka |date=December 2, 2019 |title=The Future of Sex Lives in All of Us |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opinion/future-sex-society.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=November 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116203837/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opinion/future-sex-society.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Awards and recognition ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Prize
!Work
!Notes
!scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref(s).|Reference(s)}}
|-
|[[2003 in literature|2003]]
|[[Gunzo Prize for New Writers]]
| "Junyū"
|{{Won}}
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[2009 in literature|2009]]
|[[Mishima Yukio Prize]]
| rowspan="2" | ''Gin'iro no Uta''
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Literary New Face Prize]]
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="noma">{{Cite web |title=過去の受賞作品 |url=http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/noma_n/51260.html |access-date=June 21, 2018 |website=Kodansha |language=ja |archive-date=May 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513102754/https://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/noma_n/51260.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|[[2010 in literature|2010]]
|Mishima Yukio Prize
|''Hoshi ga Sū Mizu''
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[2012 in literature|2012]]
|Mishima Yukio Prize
|''Tadaima Tobira''
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[2013 in literature|2013]]
|Mishima Yukio Prize
|''Shiroiro no Machi no, Sono Hone no Taion no''
|{{Won}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[2014 in literature|2014]]
|[[Sense of Gender Awards]]
|''Satsujin Shussan''
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="sense">{{Cite web |date=August 29, 2015 |title=2014年度第14回Sense of Gender賞 |url=http://gender-sf.org/sog/2014/ |access-date=June 21, 2018 |website=The Japanese Association for Gender Fantasy and Science Fiction |language=ja |archive-date=June 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622083755/http://gender-sf.org/sog/2014/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 in literature|2016]]
|[[Akutagawa Prize]]
|''Convenience Store Woman''
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="akutagawa" />
|}

==Notes==
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== References ==
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