中村文則
Born 1977 · Japan
Akutagawa 2005 (first half) · Winner
土の中の子供 · Tsuchi no naka no kodomo
Fuminori Nakamura · 28 when first published
Novella · 147 pages
AI-generated summary:A taxi driver of twenty-seven cannot escape memories of a childhood spent as an orphan, left by his parents and beaten daily, and as violence keeps pulling at him he looks inside himself for something to live for.
Akutagawa 2003 (first half) · Candidate
Shakō
Title translated by AI:“Shutting Out the Light”
Fuminori Nakamura · 26 when first published
Novel · 157 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A young man conceals from everyone that his girlfriend Miki was killed in an accident, goes on describing how happy she is, and keeps by him a strange jar sealed in black plastic.
Akutagawa 2002 (second half) · Candidate
銃 · Jū
Fuminori Nakamura · 25 when first published
Novel · 198 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:On a rain-soaked riverbank, university student Nishikawa comes upon a dead man with a pistol lying beside him, and as he grows fascinated by the gun's beauty he becomes convinced that he will one day fire it.