柴崎友香
Born 1973 · Japan
Akutagawa 2014 (first half) · Winner
春の庭 · Haru no niwa
Tomoka Shibasaki · 41 when first published
Novel · 154 pages
AI-generated summary:Taro, a recently divorced former hairdresser living in a soon-to-be-demolished apartment block in Setagaya, Tokyo, sees a neighbour climbing the fence into the garden next door and learns why she is obsessed with the pale-blue house there.
Akutagawa 2010 (first half) · Candidate
Harutūmu ni watashi wa inai
Title translated by AI:“I Am Not in Khartoum”
Tomoka Shibasaki · 37 when first published
Novella · 222 pages
Akutagawa 2007 (first half) · Candidate
Shudaika
Title translated by AI:“Theme Song”
Tomoka Shibasaki · 34 when first published
Novella · 189 pages
AI-generated summary:Mika, who loves to talk about pretty girls with her colleagues and lingers over a gravure magazine's guide to sexy actresses, thinks about where her art-school friends' lives are heading and hosts a café for women only in her home.
Akutagawa 2006 (second half) · Candidate
Sono machi no ima wa
Title translated by AI:“That Town, Now”
Tomoka Shibasaki · 33 when first published
Novel · 141 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Uta, twenty-eight, lost her office job when the company went under and now works in a café; after a disastrous group date she runs into Ryotaro, a younger man, and the two start meeting to pore over old photographs of Osaka.