Akutagawa
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Akutagawa, recalled Kurosawa in his memoir, “goes into the depths of the human heart as if with a surgeon’s scalpel, laying bare its dark complexities and bizarre twists.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Published in 1958, when Oe was still a university student, the story won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa prize for new writers.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023
The story won the prestigious Akutagawa prize for new writers, with Oe hailed as the most promising young writer since Mishima Yukio.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023
A graduate of Tokyo University, where he studied French Literature, Oe began publishing stories while still a student and won the Akutagawa Prize, a career-launching award for new writers, in 1958.
From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2023
He attended Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and won the Akutagawa literary prize for his novel “The Season of the Sun,” published in 1955 and turned into a popular film.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022
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