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Hitomi Kanehara 1983-
I wanted to include at least one young writer here, and I liked Snakes & Earrings (2004) a great deal. It's a sexually explicit, sadomasochistic tale, a huge success in Japan. She's kind of a successor to Mishima, with the sex and violence, and a strange lack of affect, but also in the tradition of Tanizaki.