After last year’s controversy over using AI to write about 5% of her novel, Rie Qudan was...
akutagawa prize
Mai Ishizawa’s debut novel, which won one of the three Akutagawa Prizes awarded in 2021, is also...
The English-language debut of Junko Takase’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel serves complex prose in translation by Morgan Giles.
Just three years after dedicating himself to writing, the author won Japan’s top literary award for his...
Jose Ando and Yui Suzuki take home Akutagawa honors, while Shin Iyohara nabs the Naoki Prize.
In “Hanchibakku” (“Hunchback”) by Saou Ichikawa, the human body is a machine that can be used for...
