Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara (), born the August 8th 1983, Japanese novelist .

After having given up the school at 11 years, Hitomi Kanehara launched out in the writing, a discharge system for its sufferings: it was a long time anorexic (experiment which it tells in its last book published in Japan, AMEBIC ) and related to the body transformations like the heroin of its first novel. His/her father, professor of literature and former translator, were his principal critic: she was accustomed to sending her texts by email to him so that it corrects them to him.

In 2003, its first novel, Snakes and piercings (蛇にピアス - Hebi nor Piasu ), were worth the Prix Subaru to him, then, later in the year, the most prestigious Japanese literary prize, the Prix Akutagawa, at the same time as Risa Wataya. It are the two younger authors to have received this price.

Hitomi Kanehara was eulogistically greeted by the critic as much as by the contemporary Japanese authors. For the NewYork Times, " Hitomi Kanehara is the icon of the Japanese pop culture ". For Hitonari Tsuji, old récipendiaire of the Price Akutagawa, " a writer exists as from the moment when it has this something. It, this " something " it has it, it does not have none doubt there on top ". And for Ryû Murakami, which gained the same price and which made party of the jury which allotted it to him, Serpents and Piercings " could be the genuine fruit only of one talent ".

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