Takami Itō
Appearance
Template:Japanese name Takami Itō (伊藤 たかみ, Itō Takami, born April 5 1971) is a Japanese author. He was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture. 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")