Nanae Aoyama

Aoyama was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the University of Tsukuba, where she studied library science.{{cite web|url=http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/news/20070329105058.html|language=japanese|title=本学卒業の青山七恵さんが芥川賞を受賞|work=University of Tsukuba|access-date=June 22, 2018|archive-date=December 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206190451/https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/news/20070329105058.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://bunshun.jp/articles/-/3103|language=japanese|title=ら生まれたおちゃめな双子の物語|work=Weekly Bunshun|last=瀧井|first=朝世|date=July 1, 2017|access-date=June 22, 2018}}

After graduating from university, Aoyama moved to Tokyo to take a job at a travel firm. She began writing her first novel, Mado no akari, while working full-time.{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2007/03/04/people/nanae-aoyama/|title=Nanae Aoyama: Office worker takes exalted literary status in her stride|work=The Japan Times|last=Hani|first=Yoko|date=March 4, 2007|access-date=June 22, 2018}} Mado no akari was published in 2005, and won the 42nd Bungei Prize. In 2007 Hitori biyori, Aoyama's story about freeters working part-time jobs, won the 136th Akutagawa Prize.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410201853/http://www.tokyograph.com/news/akutagawa-prize-awarded-to-nanae-aoyama/|archive-date=April 10, 2016|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-346|title=Akutagawa Prize awarded to Nanae Aoyama|work=Tokyograph|date=January 17, 2007}} After winning the Akutagawa Prize, Aoyama quit her office job to pursue writing full-time.{{cite web|url=http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/23-nanae-aoyama|title=Nanae Aoyama|work=Books from Japan|access-date=June 22, 2018}} In 2009 she won the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize for her short story Kakera, which was published in a collection of the same name. She was the youngest author ever to win the prize.{{cite web|url=https://www.trannet.co.jp/pre_up/web_news/2010/0617.html|title=Review: "Fragments" by Nanae Aoyama|work=Japanese Writers' House|last=Goto|first=Satoko|date=June 1, 2010|access-date=June 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623032840/https://www.trannet.co.jp/pre_up/web_news/2010/0617.html|archive-date=June 23, 2018|url-status=dead}} Watashi no kareshi, Aoyama's first full-length novel, was published in 2011. In 2016 she collaborated with illustrator Satoe Tone on the children's book Watashi Otsuki-sama.

Aoyama has cited Françoise Sagan and Kazuo Ishiguro as literary influences. Literary scholar Judith Pascoe proposed that Wuthering Heights was a literary influence on Aoyama's work, particularly Meguri ito, and later confirmed this influence with Aoyama herself.{{cite book|title=On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan|last=Pascoe|first=Judith|publisher=University of Michigan Press|location=Ann Arbor, MI|date=December 5, 2017|pages=150}}

• 2005 42nd Bungei Prize{{cite news|url=http://www.asahi.com/culture/entertainment/news/TKY200509050241.html|language=Japanese|title=文芸賞に１５歳、中３の三並さん 史上最年少|work=Asahi Shimbun|date=September 9, 2005|access-date=June 22, 2018|archive-date=March 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311070916/http://www.asahi.com/culture/entertainment/news/TKY200509050241.html|url-status=dead}}
• 2007 136th Akutagawa Prize (2006下){{cite web|url=http://www.bunshun.co.jp/shinkoukai/award/akutagawa/list.html|language=japanese|title=芥川賞受賞者一覧|work=日本文学振興会|access-date=June 22, 2018}}
• 2009 Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926121247/http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/kawabatasho/|archive-date=September 26, 2009|url=http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/kawabatasho/|language=japanese|title=第35回 川端康成文学賞受賞作品発表|work=Shinchosha Publishing}}

• Mado no akari (窓の灯, "The Light of Windows"), Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2005, {{ISBN|9784309017372}}
• Hitori biyori (ひとり日和, "A Perfect Day to Be Alone"), Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2007, {{ISBN|9784309018089}}
• Yasashii tameiki (やさしいため息, "A Gentle Sigh"), Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2008, {{ISBN|9784309018621}}
• Kakera (かけら, "Fragments"), Shinchosha, 2009, {{ISBN|9784103181019}}
• Mahou tsukai kurabu (魔法使いクラブ, "Magic Users Club"), Gentosha, 2009, {{ISBN|9784344017528}}
• Owakare no oto (お別れの音, "The Sound of Separation"), Bungeishunjū, 2010 {{ISBN|9784163295800}}
• Watashi no kareshi (わたしの彼氏, "My Boyfriend"), Kodansha, 2011, {{ISBN|9784062168083}}
• Akari no kohan (あかりの湖畔, "The Lakeshore in the Light"), 2011, Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2011, {{ISBN|9784120043062}}
• Hanayome (花嫁, "The Bride"), Gentosha, 2012, {{ISBN|9784344021303}}
• Sumire (Sumire), Bungeishunjū, 2012, {{ISBN|9784163813608}}
• Meguri ito (めぐり糸), Shueisha, 2013, {{ISBN|9784087715439}}
• Kairaku (快楽, Pleasure), Kodansha, 2013, {{ISBN|9784062183390}}
• Kaze, Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2014, {{ISBN|9784309022932}}
• Mayu, Shinchōsha, 2015, {{ISBN|9784103181026}}
• Watashi otsukisama, NHK, 2016 {{ISBN|9784140361252}}
• Hatchi to mārō, Shōgakukan, 2017, {{ISBN|9784093864688}}

• A Perfect Day to Be Alone, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, MacLehose Press, 2024

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