Her 2005 novel Cowards, Show Your Sad Love was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize, and also turned into a movie that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. In 2006 Love as a By-Product of Life, the novella with which the featured story first appeared, was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. Motoya won the Noma Prize for New Writers, for Warm Poison, in 2011. Other novels include Vengeance Can Wait, an English adaptation of which was staged at PS122 in New York City in 2008, as part of the Best of the Boroughs Festival, and later made into a film in Japan; That Girl’s Got Some Funny Ideas, also nominated for the Akutagawa Prize; and Despair. Her plays have won major literary and dramatic awards in Japan.