Rie Qudan
Japanese novelist
Rie Qudan or Rie Kudan (born September 27, 1990, in Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese novelist. In 2024, Qudan won the 170th Akutagawa Prize for her novel Tōkyō-to Dōjō Tō ("Tokyo Sympathy Tower").
Early life and education
Qudan was born on September 27, 1990, in Urawa (now Saitama) in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
She won her first writing award for an essay she wrote during sixth grade in elementary school.
Career
Qudan worked as a laboratory assistant after graduation from university.
In 2021, Qudan won the 126th Bungakukai Newcomer Award with her debut novel, Warui Ongaku ("Bad music").
Warui Ongaku and Schoolgirl were translated into English by Haydn Trowell and published by Gazebo Books in March 2025 in a volume titled Schoolgirl.
Her 2024 novel Tōkyō-to Dōjō Tō ("Tokyo sympathy tower") is a science fiction story about an architect who designs a tower to be built in Tokyo's Shinjuku Gyo-en garden and used as a prison to rehabilitate criminals comfortably. Set in a version of Tokyo in the near future where Zaha Hadid's unrealized version of the National Stadium for the Tokyo Olympics would have been built, the story is told from the perspective of the architect and her would-be biographer. The novel contains themes concerning artificial intelligence.
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