津村記久子
Born 1978 · Japan
Akutagawa 2008 (second half) · Winner
Potosuraimu no fune
Title translated by AI:“The Pothos Lime Boat”
Kikuko Tsumura · 30 when first published
Novella · 186 pages
AI-generated summary:Nagase, twenty-nine, juggles a factory contract and several side jobs, and when she sees that a voyage around the globe costs 1.63 million yen, exactly what the factory pays her in a year, she begins to save.
Akutagawa 2008 (first half) · Candidate
Konrei, sōrei, sonota
Title translated by AI:“Weddings, Funerals, and So On”
Kikuko Tsumura · 30 when first published
Novella · 148 pages
AI-generated summary:Office worker Yoshino, who is forever being roped into other people's events, is halfway through a college friend's wedding, after-party duties and all, when she is summoned to her boss's father's wake, still hungry.
Akutagawa 2007 (second half) · Candidate
Kasōsuki no yukue
Title translated by AI:“Where Pretend Love Leads”
Kikuko Tsumura · 29 when first published
Novella · 145 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Exiled to a suburban warehouse because of a colleague's affair, Irie, twenty-eight and unattached, tries to make her dreary days bearable by supposing she has fallen for Morikawa, a single man she works with.