町田 そのこ

Japan

Sonoko MACHIDA
(b. 1980-) was born in Fukuoka, Japan. In 2016, she won the Onna ni yoru onna no tame no R-18 bungakusho (By Women for Women R-18 Literature Prize) for Kamerun no aoi sakana (Blue Fish of Cameroon). Her masterpiece, the bestselling 52 herutsu no kujiratachi (The 52-Hertz Whales), won the 2021 Japanese Booksellers’ Award and sold about half a million copies in Japan. She was nominated for this award again the following year, for Hoshi wo sukuu (Scooping Up Stars). Sora gohan (Sora’s Recipes) is her most recent novel.