小砂川チト
Born 1990 · Japan
Akutagawa 2026 (first half) · Winner
Zonbi kaishūfu
Title translated by AI:“The Zombie Collector”
Chito Kosagawa · 36 when first published
Novel · 156 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Jobless along with her husband in a world taken over by AI, a woman who has always been a good girl takes up a strange new role and carries it out diligently, unthanked.
Akutagawa 2023 (second half) · Candidate
Saru no taikanshiki
Title translated by AI:“The Ape's Coronation”
Chito Kosagawa · 33 when first published
Novel · 140 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Shifumi, shut away at home since an incident, spots her 'big sister' on a television screen and goes to the zoo, where she meets Shineno, a bonobo once trained in language, and finds their souls falling into step.
Akutagawa 2022 (first half) · Candidate
Kateiyō anshin kōfu
Title translated by AI:“A Reassuring Miner for the Home”
Chito Kosagawa · 32 when first published
Novel · 125 pages · Speculative, Family
AI-generated summary:Konami, a housewife uneasy in her calm marriage, finds a sticker from her childhood home on a pillar in Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, and soon Tsutomu, a miner mannequin at an old mine theme park her mother always told her was her father, starts appearing all around her in Tokyo.