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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Portrait of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

RyūnosukeAkutagawa (1892–1927), born in Tokyo, Japan, wrote more than 350 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the books Rashomon, The Spider’s Thread, Kappa, and In a Grove. Japan’s premier literary award for emerging writers, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. (updated 4/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

Hybrid
Seashells
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Translated from Japanese by Ryan Choi
AGNI 95Print Only
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