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Saou Ichikawa’s Akutagawa Prize-Winning Novel ‘Hunchback’ Now Translated into English [Podcast Episode]

Barrier Free Japan found a copy of ‘Hunchback’ by Saou Ichikawa in the Osaka Umeda branch of Kinokuniya. Looking forward to reading this. I would love to meet Saou Ichikawa. As people with disabilities we are not meant to use terms like ‘inspires’, but as a fellow person with disabilities, she ’inspires’ me to write fiction about having a disability in Japan - Ichikawa has congenital myopathy.

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by Michael Gillan Peckitt
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By Barrier Free Japan

March 12 2025

KOBE/OSAKA – Barrier Free Japan found a copy of ‘Hunchback’ by Saou Ichikawa in the Osaka Umeda branch of Kinokuniya. I have been looking forward to reading this. Saou Ichikawa’s ‘Hunchback’ won the Akutagawa Prize in 2023.

I would love to meet Saou Ichikawa. 

As people with disabilities we are not meant to use terms like ‘inspires’, but as a fellow person with disabilities, she ’inspires’ me to write fiction about having a disability in Japan – Ichikawa has congenital myopathy.

‘Hunchback’ (Amazon JP): 

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