小野正嗣
Born 1970 · Japan
Akutagawa 2014 (second half) · Winner
Kyūnenmae no inori
Title translated by AI:“A Prayer Nine Years Ago”
Masatsugu Ono · 44 when first published
Novel · 221 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Sanae, a thirty-five-year-old single mother, returns with her small son Kebin to the little seaside village where she grew up, and as she struggles with his fits she recalls something an older woman, Mitchan-nee, said nine years earlier.
Akutagawa 2012 (second half) · Candidate
獅子渡り鼻 · Shishiwataribana
Masatsugu Ono · 42 when first published
Novel · 128 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:Ten-year-old Takeru, abandoned with his brother, who cannot speak or move, in a cramped city flat when their mother vanishes, is taken to the coastal backwater she always hated, where its landscape, its grown-ups and its spirits slowly mend him.
Akutagawa 2008 (first half) · Candidate
Maikuro basu
Title translated by AI:“Microbus”
Masatsugu Ono · 38 when first published
Novel · 220 pages
AI-generated summary:A mute youth drives a bus round and round a jagged stretch of coast, as though sewing the world shut, in a tale of a place and the memories of those who live there.
Akutagawa 2002 (second half) · Candidate
Suishinin no kikan
Title translated by AI:“The Return of the Drowned”
Masatsugu Ono · 32 when first published
Novel · 285 pages