Hiromi Kawakami (川 上 弘 美 Kawakami Hiromi) (Tokyo, Japan, April 1, 1958) is one of Japan's most popular writers. She studied natural sciences at the University of Ochanomizu and was a professor of biology until in 1994 she appeared her first novel (Kamisama). Her books have received the most prestigious literary awards, which have made her one of the most widely read Japanese writers. In 1996 he won the Akutagawa Prize for Tread on a Snake. In 2000 he won the Ito Sei Award and the Woman Writer's for Oboreru. In 2001 he won the prestigious Tanizaki Prize for the novel El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca (Acantilado, 2001), later adapted to the cinema with great success. Manazuru (Acantilado, 2006), and Fragile Lives, ("Cliffs", "Cliffs" and "Cliffs"), dark nights (Cliff, 2015).