[1] She wrote her first story, a novella originally titled Atarashii musume (あたらしい娘, New Girl), while working a temporary job.
[3] In 2017, Imamura received the 5th Kawai Hayao Story Prize for her 2016 book Ahiru (あひる).
[5][6] That same year Imamura won the 39th Noma Literary New Face Prize for Hoshi no ko (星の子, Child of the Stars), a book about a junior high school girl in a family that becomes increasingly involved in a new religious movement, a societal subject dubbed as "shūkyō nisei".
[9][10] In 2019, Imamura received her third Akutagawa Prize nomination, for her novel Murasaki no sukaato no onna (むらさきのスカートの女, The Woman in the Purple Skirt).
[11] The book, a first-person account of a woman watching her neighbor, won the 161st Akutagawa Prize.