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Saou Ichikawa is a Japanese novelist born in 1979. She is a significant voice in contemporary Japanese fiction, known for work that engages with disability, the body, and social exclusion with directness and compassion. Hunchback (Seppuku), which won the Akutagawa Prize in the first half of 2023, is a short, powerful novel narrated by a woman with severe scoliosis who lives in a care home. Read more →