Hiromi Kawakami
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Birth Name: Hiromi Kawakami
Age: 66, born 1 April 1958
Country of origin: Japan
Currently Residing In: Japan
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Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美 Kawakami Hiromi, born 1 April 1958) is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her 2001 novel Sensei no kaban (The Briefcase/Strange Weather in Tokyo) is a
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