高橋弘希
Born 1979 · Japan
Akutagawa 2018 (first half) · Winner
Okuribi
Title translated by AI:“Sending-Off Fire”
Hiroki Takahashi · 39 when first published
Novel · 120 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Ayumu, a ninth-grader newly arrived from Tokyo in a Tohoku hill town, thinks he has blended into his tiny class, where Akira rules everything with hanafuda cards, until on a summer night Akira asks him along to a local custom of sending burning boats downriver.
Akutagawa 2016 (first half) · Candidate
Tanzaku nagashi
Title translated by AI:“Floating Wishes Downstream”
Hiroki Takahashi · 37 when first published
Novella · 139 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A father can do nothing but keep watch as his young daughter lies close to death.
Akutagawa 2015 (first half) · Candidate
Asagao no hi
Title translated by AI:“Morning Glory Day”
Hiroki Takahashi · 36 when first published
Novel · 123 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Rinta keeps visiting Saki, the wife he has known since childhood, while she convalesces from tuberculosis; as she weakens the couple are told not to speak at all, so that her throat can heal, and one day he glimpses in her eyes something no living person should hold.
Akutagawa 2014 (second half) · Candidate
指の骨 · Yubi no hone
Hiroki Takahashi · 35 when first published
Novel · 123 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:Injured fighting in the South Pacific, a young soldier ends up in a temporary field hospital on an embattled island, where he barters with islanders for food and is given the finger bone of a friend killed by disease as a keepsake.