In English
Akutagawa 2015 (first half) · Winner
Spark
火花 · Hibana
Naoki Matayoshi · 35 when first published
Novel · 160 pages
AI-generated summary:Tokunaga, an unknown young comedian, falls under the spell of Kamiya, an older comic with a wholly original idea of humour, after meeting him at Atami's fireworks, and the two spend years arguing about what makes people laugh.