Prizes
- 1988 Kaien literary Prize(Benesse) for her debut The Breaking of the Butterfly (Agehacho ga kowareru toki, 揚羽蝶が壊れる時)
- 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Pregnancy Calendar (Ninshin karendaa, 妊娠 カレンダー)
- 2004 Yomiuri Prize for The Professor's Beloved Equation (Hakase no aishita sushiki, 博士の愛した数式; translated as The Housekeeper and the Professor)
- 2004 Kyoka Izumi Prize for Burafuman no maisō, ブラフマンの埋葬
- 2006 Tanizaki Prize for Meena's March (Mīna no kōshin, ミーナの行進)
- 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for "The Diving Pool"
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“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
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