松尾スズキ
Born 1962 · Japan
Akutagawa 2018 (first half) · Candidate
Mō 'hai' to shika ienai
Title translated by AI:“All I Can Say Now Is Yes”
Suzuki Matsuo · 56 when first published
Novel · 204 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Caught after a two-year affair and bound by his wife's terms of surrender, the playwright Goro Kaiba, who hates flying and fears foreigners, jumps at a dubious French prize that pays for a week in Paris, a trip that turns into a nightmare.
Akutagawa 2009 (second half) · Candidate
Rōjin tobaku
Title translated by AI:“Old Man Gambling”
Suzuki Matsuo · 47 when first published
Novel · 204 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Kenzo Kaneko, a masseur whose only comfort is comedy films, becomes the disciple of a director and joins a shoot in a shuttered shopping arcade in Kitakyushu, where the bored crew start betting on how often their seventy-eight-year-old lead will fluff his lines.
Akutagawa 2005 (second half) · Candidate
Kuwaietto rūmu ni yōkoso
Title translated by AI:“Welcome to the Quiet Room”
Suzuki Matsuo · 43 when first published
Novel · 138 pages
AI-generated summary:Asuka, a freelance journalist of twenty-eight, comes to in a strange white room, the closed women's ward of a mental hospital, after swallowing too many sleeping pills.