Sayaka Murata Interview: A Creature In My Own Right

Meet one of Japan’s most striking young writers. Writer Sayaka Murata worked several years in a convenience store and wrote a best-selling novel about her odd experiences, feeling brainwashed “as if there was a convenience store god I could not betray.” Sayaka Murata started writing novels when she was ten years old. “At that time, I wanted to look at people with the eyes of an alien. I found that people were very strange creatures. And creatures like people who let the hair on their heads grow long shave their bodies and wear clothes made of textiles must look like very strange creatures. And there are a lot of them. If someone from outer space sees us and if they compare people to cats or dogs they will think that we are really strange creatures”. Murata feels very much inspired by the Japanese writer named Rieko Matsuura. “Originally, I was really restricted by the idea of being a woman or a human being. I really disparaged and restricted myself. But she taught me that I could live in