Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう
Edition 88 (1982, held 2 times in year)
Winners
2 peopleThe 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.
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.