Li Kotomi

Books on prize lists

• 彼岸花が咲く島

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  Akutagawa 2021 (first half) · ★ Winner

  彼岸花が咲く島

  Higanbana ga saku shima

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Island Where Spider Lilies Bloom”

  Li Kotomi · 32 when first published

  Novel · 188 pages · Speculative, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:A girl who has lost her memory washes up on a beach of red spider lilies and is named Umi, 'from the sea', by Yona, a local girl, on an island ruled by priestesses where two languages are spoken, one of them taught only to women.

• 五つ数えれば三日月が

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  Akutagawa 2019 (first half) · Candidate

  五つ数えれば三日月が

  Itsutsu kazoereba mikazuki ga

  AITitle translated by AI:“Count to Five and a Crescent Moon”

  Li Kotomi · 30 when first published

  Novella · 134 pages · Love, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:In the final summer of the Heisei era, a Taiwanese woman working in Japan sees her friend Mio again in Tokyo after five years apart; Mio married a Taiwanese man and moved to Taiwan, and the narrator has feelings she has never voiced.