Kikuko Tsumura

Kikuko Tsumura (born January 23, 1978) is a Japanese novelist from Osaka. She won the 140th Akutagawa Prize in 2009 for Potosu Raimu no Fune (The Lime Pothos Boat), and her fiction, much of it drawing on her own experience of office work, has also received the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize. Her novel There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job, translated into English in 2020, follows a woman drifting between odd jobs in contemporary Japan.