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Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese writer and lady-in-waiting who was the author of The Tale of Genji (c. 1010), generally considered the greatest work of Japanese literature and thought to be the world’s oldest full novel. Learn more about Murasaki Shikibu’s life.

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An extremely popular writer both in her lifetime and in the millenia since, Murasaki Shikibu is credited as writing the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji. A mysterious figure, Murasaki used her illicit knowledge of classical Chinese and Japanese literature not only redefine the genre she wrote in, but to create an artform that survives to this day. Murasaki Like so many of the women we cover, it's unknown if Murasaki Shikibu is even this woman's real name. Probably born in 973 CE…

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