Abstract

Nominated for the 170th Akutagawa Prize.

Liberated from his assigned ‘male’ gender, Masago played the role of a mermaid in his high school drama club.
What forced Masago to stop ‘trying to live as a girl’?
A way of life that should have been chosen by oneself, but was never an option.
This is the transgender story you want to read most now, poignantly reflecting a young Tamashii who is shaken by social norms.

Author’s Information

Megumi KAWANO
Novelist, poet and literary researcher; born 1991 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
She won the 29th Poetry Prize for her series "Lilith" in 2018 and the 65th Contemporary Poets Society Prize for her poetry collection "Lilith" in 2009. Her other books include a collection of short stories," Utopia for Innocent Flowers", a collection of short stories, An Example of "Lunar Script Reprinting", a full-length story,"The Strange Garden", and a collection of essays, "Becoming a Cute Pink Dragon".