Yukiko Motoya author biography, plus links to books by Yukiko Motoya.

Yukiko Motoya

Yukiko Motoya is the author of The Lonesome Bodybuilder. She won the Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016, the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; and the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014.

This biography was last updated on 09/08/2026.

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