Takami Itō

Takami Itō (伊藤 たかみ) is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006.

Biography
Itō was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As a middle-school student, he was a classmate of Ken Hirai. He later graduated from Waseda University.

Prizes

 * Bungei Prize (1995)
 * Shōgakukan Children's Publications Culture Prize (2000)
 * Jōji Hirata Literature Prize
 * Akutagawa Prize (2006) for the novel "八月の路上に捨てる" (Hachigatsu no rojō ni suteru - literally means "Desert on the August road")