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This author began his career with a translation of Anatole France's Balthasar, and in a semi-autobiographical work named "Cogwheels", the narrator turns to Strindberg for respite. A Buddha witnesses a robber's attempts to escape hell in his story "The Spider Thread", and in another work, an unemployed man turns to thievery when an old woman arrives at the titular gate. In yet another work, seven characters give seven contradictory accounts concerning the murder of a samurai by the bandit Takehiro, which inspired a film by Akira Kurosawa.  FTP, name this author of "In a Grove" and "Rashomon" who lends his name to Japan's highest literary prize.
This author began his career with a translation of Anatole France's Balthasar, and in a semi-autobiographical work named "Cogwheels", the narrator turns to Strindberg for respite.
Ryunosuke {Akutagawa}