円城塔
Born 1972 · Japan
Akutagawa 2011 (second half) · Winner
道化師の蝶 · Dōkeshi no chō
Toh EnJoe · 39 when first published
Novella · 112 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Abrams, a rich businessman cast as a clown in a novel written in Latino sine flexione, spends lavishly hunting for its author, the elusive polyglot Tomoyuki Tomoyuki, who keeps moving on and leaving manuscripts behind in each local language.
Akutagawa 2011 (first half) · Candidate
Kore wa pen desu
Title translated by AI:“This Is a Pen”
Toh EnJoe · 39 when first published
Novella · 173 pages · Speculative, Family
AI-generated summary:A university student keeps receiving strange letters from her uncle, who seems to have made a fortune from a program that writes text by itself, and his messages arrive not only by hand but as engraved magnets, typeballs and DNA sequences.
Akutagawa 2007 (first half) · Candidate
Obu za bēsubōru
Toh EnJoe · 35 when first published
Novella · 153 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Fowles is a dull little town where, about once a year, a person drops out of the heavens; a drifter who washes up there joins its rescue squad, issued with baseball uniforms and bats.