They're the author of the woman in the purple skirt right? I haven't yet. I haven't branched out much in modern JP lit yet. Besides Murakami (Haruki, who I am not a big fan of), I've read some Natsuo Kirino, Seicho Matsumoto, Sayaka Murata and Yoko Ogawa mainly, but I still have to read Kawakami for example.

Have dabbled a bit more in classic lit