海人舟 (Amabune)

Keitarō Kondō (1920-2002) was a Japanese novelist who debuted in 1952 with \"Shipwreck\" and gained prominence by winning the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1956 for his work Amabune (Sea People's Boat). He later received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1988 for Okumura Tocyu, a biography of the artist Tocyu Okumura, amid a diverse career that included erotic novels, confessional works like Smile, essays on dogs and go, and art-related writings. Wikidata, Akutagawa Prize -