Biography
Sawako Agawa is a Japanese author, essayist, television personality and actress. Born on 1 November 1953 in Tokyo, she is the daughter of novelist Hiroyuki Agawa and a graduate of Keio University, where she studied Western Historiography.
Agawa began her career in Japanese television as a reporter and news reader before becoming an interviewer and appearing in talk shows and quiz programmes. She has acted in a number of films and television series, including a voice role as Eriko in the animated feature The Boy and the Heron (2023). Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television, among them Soup Opera (2010).
In 2014 she received the Kikuchi Kan Prize. She won the Tokyo Drama Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2018 for her performance in Rikuoh.
