田中慎弥
Born 1972 · Japan
Akutagawa 2011 (second half) · Winner
共喰い · Tomogui
Shinya Tanaka · 39 when first published
Novella · 81 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In a small riverside town, seventeen-year-old Toma, dating Chigusa, a neighbour a year older whom he has known all his life, shares a home with his father and Kotoko, the father's woman, insisting to himself that he is nothing like the man who hits her during sex.
Akutagawa 2010 (second half) · Candidate
Daisankisō no sakana
Title translated by AI:“Fish of the Tertiary Strata”
Shinya Tanaka · 38 when first published
Novella · 140 pages
Akutagawa 2008 (second half) · Candidate
Kamisama no inai Nihon shirīzu
Title translated by AI:“A Japan Series Without God”
Shinya Tanaka · 36 when first published
Novel · 157 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In 1986, a boy whose father vanished after trouble over baseball gambling gets a postcard from him telling him to play baseball, and is torn between that wish and his mother's hatred of the game while he rehearses a play with a classmate he idolises.
Akutagawa 2007 (second half) · Candidate
Kireta kusari
Title translated by AI:“The Broken Chain”
Shinya Tanaka · 35 when first published
Novella · 146 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In a town facing the straits, Umeyo, last daughter of the old Sakurai family that once turned the fishing village into a concrete city, lives with her divorced daughter and granddaughter, nursing a hatred for the Korean church built beside their decaying house.
Akutagawa 2006 (second half) · Candidate
Tosho junbishitsu
Title translated by AI:“The Library Storeroom”
Shinya Tanaka · 34 when first published
Novella · 184 pages
AI-generated summary:A man past thirty who has never held a job drinks on his mother's money; asked at his grandfather's memorial why he won't work, he answers at length, by way of a wartime crime an old schoolteacher once admitted to him.