Akutagawa Prize winners (150th to 172nd)
The top 3 according to 159 votes from people: Tomoka Shibasaki: 春の庭 · Hiroko Oyamada: 穴 (The Hole) · Keisuke Hada: スクラップ・アンド・ビルド. (Updated Jul 21, 2025.)
The Akutagawa Prize for new literary fiction is awarded twice a year. From Hiroko Oyamada's The Hole (150th) through Naoki Matayoshi's Spark, Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman and Saō Ichikawa's Hunchback to José Andō and Yūki Suzuki at the 172nd: every winner since the second half of 2013. No prize was given at the 173rd (first half of 2025).
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Top 32
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Tomoka Shibasaki: 春の庭
151st Akutagawa Prize (2014, first half).
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Hiroko Oyamada: 穴 (The Hole)
150th Akutagawa Prize (2013, second half).
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3
Keisuke Hada: スクラップ・アンド・ビルド
153rd Akutagawa Prize (2015, first half).
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Masatsugu Ono: 九年前の祈り
152nd Akutagawa Prize (2014, second half).
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Yūshō Takiguchi: 死んでいない者
154th Akutagawa Prize (2015, second half).
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Yūki Suzuki: ゲーテはすべてを言った
172nd Akutagawa Prize (2024, second half).
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Mai Ishizawa: 貝に続く場所にて
165th Akutagawa Prize (2021, first half).
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Naoki Matayoshi: 火花 (Spark)
153rd Akutagawa Prize (2015, first half). Written by a comedian, it sold more than two million copies in hardback alone.
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9
Yūka Ishii: 百年泥
158th Akutagawa Prize (2017, second half).
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10
Sayaka Murata: コンビニ人間 (Convenience Store Woman)
155th Akutagawa Prize (2016, first half). An international bestseller, translated into many languages.
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11
Rie Qudan: 東京都同情塔 (Sympathy Tower Tokyo)
170th Akutagawa Prize (2023, second half).
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Shinsuke Numata: 影裏
157th Akutagawa Prize (2017, first half).
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Yukiko Motoya: 異類婚姻譚
154th Akutagawa Prize (2015, second half).
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14
Makoto Furukawa: 背高泡立草
162nd Akutagawa Prize (2019, second half).
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15
Junko Takase: おいしいごはんが食べられますように
167th Akutagawa Prize (2022, first half).
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Takahiro Ueda: ニムロッド
160th Akutagawa Prize (2018, second half).
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Natsuko Imamura: むらさきのスカートの女 (The Woman in the Purple Skirt)
161st Akutagawa Prize (2019, first half).
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18
Bunji Sunakawa: ブラックボックス
166th Akutagawa Prize (2021, second half).
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Hiroki Takahashi: 送り火
159th Akutagawa Prize (2018, first half).
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Haruka Tōno: 破局
163rd Akutagawa Prize (2020, first half).
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21
Iko Idogawa: この世の喜びよ
168th Akutagawa Prize (2022, second half).
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Atsushi Satō: 荒地の家族
168th Akutagawa Prize (2022, second half).
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Sumito Yamashita: しんせかい
156th Akutagawa Prize (2016, second half).
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Ryōhei Machiya: 1R1分34秒
160th Akutagawa Prize (2018, second half).
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Chisako Wakatake: おらおらでひとりいぐも
158th Akutagawa Prize (2017, second half).
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José Andō: DTOPIA
172nd Akutagawa Prize (2024, second half).
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Haneko Takayama: 首里の馬
163rd Akutagawa Prize (2020, first half).
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Sanzō Matsunaga K: バリ山行
171st Akutagawa Prize (2024, first half).
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Rin Usami: 推し、燃ゆ (Idol, Burning)
164th Akutagawa Prize (2020, second half).
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Li Kotomi: 彼岸花が咲く島
165th Akutagawa Prize (2021, first half).
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Aki Asahina: サンショウウオの四十九日
171st Akutagawa Prize (2024, first half).
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Saō Ichikawa: ハンチバック (Hunchback)
169th Akutagawa Prize (2023, first half).
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Comments (6)
ハンチバック、受賞会見も含めて衝撃だった
芥川賞って毎回よくわからん作品が選ばれるイメージｗ
それは選考委員に言ってくれｗ
「おいしいごはんが食べられますように」はタイトルとのギャップがすごい。職場の空気の描き方がリアルで、読後しばらく引きずった。
火花から読書にハマった人けっこういると思う
コンビニ人間は海外の友達もみんな読んでてびっくりした