Aki Asahina

Aki Asahina (朝比奈秋) is a Japanese physician and novelist born in 1981 in Kyoto Prefecture, who debuted in 2021 with "Salt Road," winning the 7th Hayashi Fumiko Literary Prize while working as a gastroenterologist. Shinchosha. In 2023, he won the 36th Mishima Yukio Prize for "Plant Girl," the 51st Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize, and the 45th Noma Literary Rookie Award for "With Your Burning Left Hand"; in 2024, he received the prestigious 171st Akutagawa Prize for "Salamander's Forty-Nine Days," becoming the first male writer to achieve the pure literature rookie grand slam (three major prizes).Japan Times, Akutagawa Prize.