Takami Itō

is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006.

Biography 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.

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")