In English
Akutagawa 2006 (second half) · Winner
A Perfect Day to Be Alone
ひとり日和 · Hitori biyori
Nanae Aoyama · 23 when first published
Novel · 150 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with seventy-one-year-old Ginko and her two cats in a little house beside a railway platform, and through the seasons serves at a station stall, finds a boyfriend and watches Ginko's own love affair.