Overview

• The shortlist features seven titles, with the winner to be announced on November 5 local time.
• Ichikawa’s debut novel previously won Japan’s Akutagawa Prize and the Bungei Newcomer Award.
• The French edition is translated by Patrick Honore, and translation rights have been sold in more than 20 countries and regions.
• Ichikawa, 46, was born in Kanagawa in 1979 and lives with congenital myopathy, using a ventilator and power wheelchair.
• The novel centers on a woman with a severe spinal condition who lives in a group home.