The 166th Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize selection meeting was held in Tokyo, and Bunji Sunakawa's "Black Box" was selected for the Akutagawa Prize.
Bunji Sunakawa's career and works
Bunji Sunakawa, who was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, is 31 years old born in Osaka Prefecture.
After graduating from university and becoming a self-defense official, he started writing novels and made his debut in 2016 when he won the New Artist Award in a literary magazine for "Urban Warfare."
Currently, he continues his creative activities while working at the ward office in Tokyo, and this time, the Akutagawa Prize was awarded as the third candidate.
The award-winning "Black Box" is the main character of a man who works as a "messenger" who carries luggage by bicycle in a world where infection with the new coronavirus is spreading.
The hero who has changed jobs so far feels dissatisfaction with others and the world every day, and the question to himself, "Why do you suddenly explode your feelings of anger?" It is written in a sentence that says.