Takahiro Ueda (上田 岳弘, Ueda Takahiro) is a Japanese novelist. He won the 2019 Akutagawa Prize for his science-fiction novel Nimuroddo (Nimrod), which "depicts relations between the advancement of science and humanism with a focus on cryptocurrency".[1] He also won the 2015 Mishima Prize for My One True Love.

In 2016, he was named by Granta magazine as one of the best young Japanese novelists.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Three novelists picked for Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards". Japan Times. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Creation of stories all around Japan". Short Shorts. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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