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Takami Itō (伊藤 たかみ, Itō Takami, born April 5, 1971) is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006.^[1]

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.

• 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")

• J'Lit | Authors : Takami Ito | Books from Japan