Rieko Matsuura (1958-) was born in Ehime. She won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, for Sogi no Hi (The Day of the Funeral), which she wrote while at the university. In 1994, she won the Women's Literary Prize, for Oyayubi P no Shugyo Jidai (The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P).

1978 Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, for Sogi no Hi (The Day of the Funeral)

1994 Women's Literary Prize, for Oyayubi P no Shugyo Jidai (The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P)

2007 Yomiuri Prize for Literature, for Kenshin (A Dog's Body)