本谷有希子
Born 1979 · Japan
Akutagawa 2015 (second half) · Winner
異類婚姻譚 · Irui kon'intan
Yukiko Motoya · 36 when first published
Novella · 209 pages · Satire, Speculative
AI-generated summary:A childless housewife who neither works nor wants for anything realises one day that her face has come to look exactly like her husband's, a man who wants to think about nothing at home and has become obsessed with deep-frying.
Akutagawa 2011 (first half) · Candidate
Nurui doku
Title translated by AI:“Lukewarm Poison”
Yukiko Motoya · 32 when first published
Novel · 133 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:One night a stranger who claims to be an old classmate phones a nineteen-year-old woman; she knows at once he is a heartless liar, yet his lies enthral her and begin a five-year private war between them.
Akutagawa 2009 (first half) · Candidate
Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen
Title translated by AI:“That Girl Has Strange Ideas”
Yukiko Motoya · 30 when first published
Novel · 139 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A twenty-three-year-old part-timer whose whole identity rests on her G-cup breasts shares a flat with a twenty-three-year-old virgin convinced she smells, who obsesses over dioxins from the waste plant, and together the two misfits get through their lonely days.
Akutagawa 2006 (first half) · Candidate
生きてるだけで、愛。 · Ikiteru dake de, ai
Yukiko Motoya · 27 when first published
Novella · 112 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Yasuko, twenty-five, sleeps too much and swings between highs and lows; three years into sharing Tsunaki's flat, she is confronted by his ex, who wants her gone and keeps telling her to become independent.