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Featured Article: 10 Famous Japanese Authors You Have to Hear
Thanks to the work of translators and publishers, Japanese literature is now more accessible than ever to English-speaking audiences. If you've ever wanted to learn more about Japanese culture and literature, you cannot go wrong with listening to audiobooks from Japan. We've compiled a list of the most famous Japanese authors who have helped define Japanese literature, and their notable works across genres and time periods.
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- A Novel
- By: Natsuo Kirino
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband....
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- A Novel
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-21-16
- Language: English
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Real World
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-29-25
- Language: English
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Swallows
- By: Natsuo Kirino, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything—even her womb—to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?
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Swallows
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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Swallows
- By: Natsuo Kirino, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda - translation
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it's hard to turn down.
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Swallows
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-14-25
- Language: English
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