Eiko Matsumura

Matsumura was born in Shizuoka, Japan on July 3, 1961. She graduated from Tsukuba University. After graduation, she worked at a computer software company and began writing fiction. Her first work, Boku wa Kagayaku Hime (僕はかぐや姫) was published in 1990, and was well-received by critics.^[1] It won the Kaien Award for New Writers [ja] and was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize.^[2]

Matsumura's next story, Abaton (至高聖所（アバトーン)) won the Akutagawa Prize in 1991.^[2]

• Boku wa Kagayaku Hime (僕はかぐや姫), 1990
• Abaton (至高聖所（アバトーン)), 1991