高尾長良
Born 1992 · Japan
Akutagawa 2019 (second half) · Candidate
Oto ni kiku
Title translated by AI:“Heard in Sound”
Nagara Takao · 27 when first published
Novel · 141 pages
AI-generated summary:In Vienna, a gifted teenage composer and her elder sister, who has left her native tongue behind, wrestle with words and sound.
Akutagawa 2014 (second half) · Candidate
Kagehime
Nagara Takao · 22 when first published
Novel · 122 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Kagehime, a Mononobe priestess who takes the form of a kingfisher to listen for the gods in the forest, falls for Shibi, a man of the rival Heguri clan, though the crown prince has already sought her hand, in a tale drawn from the Nihon Shoki.
Akutagawa 2012 (second half) · Candidate
Nikukotsucha
Title translated by AI:“Bak Kut Teh”
Nagara Takao · 20 when first published
Novella · 123 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Akaiko, a painfully thin schoolgirl, gives her mother the slip while travelling in Southeast Asia and hides at her friend Zooey's holiday home, to escape food that she feels piling up inside her as fat.