Iko Idogawa

Iko Idogawa (井戸川射子) is a Japanese writer and poet born in 1987 in Hyogo Prefecture, who graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University and worked as a high school Japanese language teacher while developing her literary career.Hyogo University interview, Prizesworld She won the Nakahara Chūya Award for her 2018 poetry collection Do, Be Done Utopia, the Noma Literary Rookie Award for her 2021 short story collection This Is a Very Fast River, and the prestigious 168th Akutagawa Prize for her 2022 novel O Joy of This World (Kono Yo no Yorokobi yo), her debut work in long-form fiction. Japanese