滝口悠生
Born 1982 · Japan
Akutagawa 2015 (second half) · Winner
Shinde inai mono
Title translated by AI:“Those Not Dead”
Yusho Takiguchi · 33 when first published
Novel · 144 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:On an autumn day about thirty descendants, from children to great-grandchildren, assemble to keep vigil over an old man who has died full of years, and through the night each one's musings on mortality and recollections of the clan drift and overlap.
Akutagawa 2015 (first half) · Candidate
Jimi Hendorikusu ekusuperiensu
Title translated by AI:“The Jimi Hendrix Experience”
Yusho Takiguchi · 33 when first published
Novella · 119 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A teenage romance, a scooter journey across Tohoku and the sound of Hendrix: one man's recollections of the decade from autumn 2001 to spring 2011 change shape with every retelling, as his nineteen-year-old self and the man he became briefly meet.