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Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう

Edition 170 (2023, held 2 times in year)

Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story

Winners

1 people
Rie Kudan くだん りえ award

Tokyo Sympathy Tower is a novel by Rie Kudan. Through Sara Makina, an architect entering a design competition for Sympathy Tower Tokyo, a new prison for people considered deserving of sympathy, it examines tolerance, language, and justice. It received the 170th Akutagawa Prize.

From the perspective of an architect designing a new prison, the novel portrays a city founded on the language of tolerance.

144 pages
architecture and the citytolerance and justicelanguage and society