大道珠貴
Born 1966 · Japan
Akutagawa 2002 (second half) · Winner
Shoppai doraibu
Title translated by AI:“Salty Drive”
Tamaki Daido · 36 when first published
Novella · 193 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Miho, thirty-four and single in a harbour town, drifts toward living with Mr Tsukumo, a feeble, slope-shouldered man in his sixties with a wife and children, in a love story that is sad and comic at once.
Akutagawa 2001 (second half) · Candidate
Yūutsu na ichigo
Title translated by AI:“Melancholy Strawberry”
Tamaki Daido · 35 when first published
Novella · 190 pages
Akutagawa 2000 (first half) · Candidate
Hadaka
Title translated by AI:“Naked”
Tamaki Daido · 34 when first published
Novella · 190 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A nineteen-year-old works as a hostess in a Hakata bar alongside her gaunt cousin and her aunt, the woman who took her father from her mother, in a family of three generations of women propping one another up by the Naka River.
Akutagawa 2000 (second half) · Candidate
Suppon
Title translated by AI:“Snapping Turtle”
Tamaki Daido · 34 when first published
Novella · 190 pages