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Her debut novel, ''The Electrical Field'', was published in 1998 , and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. It also won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Her second novel, ''One Hundred Million Hearts'', was published in 2003 . Both books have been published in translation internationally. She is presently at work on a third novel for which she received a Chalmers Fellowship. Sakamoto has given talks and readings and has participated in literary festivals in Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. Sakamoto is also known as a writer of screenplays and essays on visual art. She has completed a screenplay adaptation of ''The Electrical Field'' and a script for an episode of a miniseries for CBC Television . She often collaborates with filmmakers as story editor or script editor on narrative, experimental and experimental documentary works. She has also written on visual art for museums and galleries in Canada and the United States, such as the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Fine Arts Centre , the Whitney Museum Of American Art , and the Honolulu Museum Of Contemporary Art . In 2004, she contributed a catalogue essay on the work of Painters Eleven abstract expressionist Kazuo Nakamura for an exhibition at the Art Gallery Of Ontario . In 2005, Sakamoto was appointed the Barker Fairly Distinguished Visitor at the University Of Toronto . |
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