Lit in Translation

Suzumi Suzuki

鈴木涼美

Born 1983 · Japan

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2026 (first half) · Candidate

    悪い血

    Warui chi

    Title translated by AI:“Bad Blood”

    Suzumi Suzuki · 43 when first published

    Novel · 127 pages

    AI-generated summary:A woman who has always lived as she pleased receives sudden news about her body, and as she walks to the clinic in jewelled sandals to reclaim a blood sample, her past wrongs come back to her one by one.

  • In English

    Akutagawa 2022 (first half) · Candidate

    Gifted

    ギフテッド · Gifuteddo

    Suzumi Suzuki · 39 when first published

    Novella · 120 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:A bar hostess living in a block on the fringe of a red-light district nurses her gravely ill mother, a single parent and failed poet, and in the shadow of death keeps thinking of a friend who recently killed herself.

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2022 (second half) · Candidate

    グレイスレス

    Gureisuresu

    Suzumi Suzuki · 39 when first published

    Novella · 122 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Mizuki does make-up for actresses in adult films, and goes home to her grandmother in an ornate Western-style house in the woods, crossing daily between two worlds that could not be further apart.