Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara
Hitomi Kanehara
Native name	金原ひとみ
Born	August 8, 1983 (age 41)
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Japanese
Genre	Fiction, short story
Notable works	Hebi ni piasu (蛇にピアス); Torippu torappu (トリップトラップ); Mazãzu (マザーズ);
Notable awards	Akutagawa Prize; Oda Sakunosuke Prize; Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize;

Hitomi Kanehara (金原ひとみ, Kanehara Hitomi, born August 8, 1983) is a Japanese novelist. Her novel Hebi ni piasu (Snakes and Earrings) won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and sold over a million copies in Japan. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.