Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう
Edition 168 (2022, held 2 times in year)
Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story
Winners
2 people
Iko Idogawa
award
A three-story collection in which a woman working in a mourning-clothes department quietly traces unspoken feeling and family memory after meeting a girl at a food court. It includes the title story and two other pieces.
It quietly brings unspoken feeling back to life through the texture of everyday scenes.
144 pages
familymemorylosseveryday lifean encounter with a girl
Set in Miyagi more than ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this novel follows Yuji Sakai, a landscape gardener, as he moves through loss and the uneasy possibility of renewal. It portrays a man trying to live again beyond the ordinary life that was taken away.
More than ten years after the disaster, a man keeps wandering the land.
160 pages
earthquake disasterlossrenewalfamilyMiyagi