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Yuka Murayama

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Yuka Murayama
Born (1964-07-10) July 10, 1964 (age 60)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationWriter

Yuka Murayama (村山由佳, Murayama Yuka) (born July 10, 1964 in Tokyo) is a modern Japanese female writer. She graduated from Rikkyo University and majored in Japanese literature.

Biography

Before becoming a writer she worked at as a real-estate agent and a teacher at a cram school. In 1987, her first novel, Angel Egg, won the Subaru award in Japan. After garnering the prize, she produced many other novels: Wild Winds, Bad Kids, Delicious Coffee Series, among others. Angel Egg was adapted to film in 2006 as The Angel's Egg, directed by Shin Togashi.[1]

Yuka Murayama lives in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo. An energetic and bright woman, she not only enjoys writing novels but her other hobbies: horseback riding, growing vegetables, and travelling. Her novels have a purity of feeling which is rich in the details of our common experiences.

References

  1. ^ 天使の卵 (2006) (in Japanese). Allcinema.net. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
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