千葉雅也
Born 1978 · Japan
Akutagawa 2023 (first half) · Candidate
Erekutorikku
Title translated by AI:“Electric”
Masaya Chiba · 45 when first published
Novel · 164 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:In Utsunomiya in 1995, Tatsuya, a teenager who dreams of Tokyo, gets online early on at the urging of his father, an adman who builds amplifiers in his home studio, and timidly reaches out to the gay community he finds there.
Akutagawa 2021 (first half) · Candidate
Ōbā hīto
Title translated by AI:“Overheat”
Masaya Chiba · 43 when first published
Novel · 185 pages · Love, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A philosopher who has swapped Tokyo for Osaka and lectures in Kyoto drifts between language and men's bodies, missing his younger boyfriend and keeping company with his favourite bar, his tropical fish, his tweets and memories of a lost family home.
Akutagawa 2019 (second half) · Candidate
Deddorain
Title translated by AI:“Deadline”
Masaya Chiba · 41 when first published
Novel · 161 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In spring 2001 a gay student starts graduate work in contemporary French philosophy in Tokyo, and while he helps a friend make a film, drives through the night with his best friend and has chance encounters with men, his deadline for a thesis on Deleuze creeps closer.