was a Japanese author. Takai won the 1965 Akutagawa Prize for ''Kita no kawa'' (Northern Stream), the 1984 Tanizaki Prize for ''Kono kuni no sora'' (この国の空, This Country's Sky), and the 1989 Yomiuri Prize for ''Yoru no ari'' (夜の蟻).

Selected works

*''Shōnentachi no senjo'', 1968. *''Yoake no tochi'', 1968. *''Tanima no michi'', 1969. *''Yuki no hate no fūsō'', 1970. *''Tōi hi no umi'', 1972. *''Mushitachi no sumika'' (蟲たちの棲家), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1973. *''Kuregata no mori ni te'', 1976. *''Yume no ishibumi'', 1976. *''Kansatsusha no chikara'', 1977. *''Shinjitsu no gakko'', 1980. *''Kono kuni no sora'' (この国の空), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1983. *''Bara no nedoko'' (薔薇の寝床), Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1985. *''Chiri no miyako ni'' (塵の都に), Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1988. *''Yoru no ari'' (夜の蟻), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1989. *''Shohan (初版) Tōkyō'' : Shōgakkan, 1991. *''Tachihara Seishū'' (立原正秋), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1991. *''Sakka no ikishini'' (作家の生き死), Tōkyō : Kadokawa Shoten, 1997.

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Yuichi Takai
at J'Lit Books from Japan 1932 births 2016 deaths Japanese writers Akutagawa Prize winners Yomiuri Prize winners Presidents of the Japan Writers’ Association {{Japan-writer-stub