Takami Itō
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Itō".
Takami Itō (伊藤 たかみ Itō Takami, born April 5, 1971) is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006.[1]
Biography
Itō was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As a middle-school student, he was a classmate of Ken Hirai. He later graduated from Waseda University.
Prizes
- Bungei Prize (1995)
- Shōgakukan Children's Publications Culture Prize (2000)
- Jōji Hirata Literature Prize
- Akutagawa Prize (2006) for the novel "八月の路上に捨てる" (Hachigatsu no rojō ni suteru - literally means "Desert on the August road")
References
- ↑ 芥川賞受賞者一覧 (in Japanese). Bungeishunjū. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
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