Kenji Maruyama

Kenji Maruyama (丸山 健二) is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage (夏の流れ), in 1966, at the age of 23, becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23, following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo.