Convenience Store Woman
First edition cover (Japan) | |
| Author | Sayaka Murata |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Nancy Wu |
| Original title | コンビニ人間 (Konbini Ningen) |
| Translator | Ginny Tapley Takemori |
| Language | Japanese |
| Set in | Japan |
| Published | June 2016 in Bungakukai |
| Publisher | Bungeishunjū |
Publication date | 27 July 2016 |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 12 June 2018 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 160 |
| Awards | 155th Akutagawa Prize (2016) |
| ISBN | 978-4-16-390618-8 |
| 895.63/6 | |
| LC Class | PL873.U73 C6613 2018 |
Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. It won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016. Aside from writing, Murata worked at a convenience store three times a week and drew the inspiration for the novel from her experiences. It was first published in the June 2016 issue of Bungakukai and later as a book in July 2016 by Bungeishunjū.
The novel has sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan and is the first of Murata's novels to be translated into English. The translation, by Ginny Tapley Takemori, was released by Grove Press (US) and Portobello Books (UK) in 2018. The book has further been translated into more than thirty languages.