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Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう

Edition 88 (1982, held 2 times in year)

Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story

Winners

2 people
Sachiko Kato かとう さちこ award

The Wall of Dreams is a short story by Yukiko Kato. Set in Beijing around the end of World War II, it depicts the friendship between Sachi and a Chinese boy grieving for his mother. It received the 88th Akutagawa Prize.

Through a young girl's eyes in Beijing around the end of the war, the story portrays loss and friendship.

childhood in Beijingmemories of warfriendship
Kara Juro から じゅうろう award

Sagawa-kun kara no Tegami begins with a letter from a man involved in a Paris case and follows the narrator's journey to seek a meeting. As strange encounters blur fact and fiction, Jūrō Kara's theatrical imagination examines love, desire, and the limits of understanding another person.

A literary journey through Paris, set in motion by a letter and shaped by the shifting boundary between fact and fiction.

173 pages
fact and fictionParisletterslove and desiretheatrical imagination