玄侑 宗久(げんゆう そうきゅう、1956年 - ) 日本の小説家、臨済宗妙心寺派の僧侶。福島県三春町生まれ。慶應義塾大学文学部中国文学科を卒業後、さまざまな職業を経て京都・天龍寺専門道場で禅の修行を積み、現在は福聚寺住職を務める。仏教的な世界観を背景に、生と死、人間の心、自然との共生を静謐な筆致で描く作品を発表し、2001年に『中陰の花』で第125回芥川賞、2014年には『光の山』で芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞した。代表作『中陰の花』は、死者と生者の境界にある「中陰」を題材に、喪失と再生を繊細に描いた短編集であり、現代文学に仏教的な視座をもたらした作品として高く評価されている。
Sokyu Genyu (born 1956) is a Japanese novelist and Zen Buddhist priest of the Rinzai school. Born in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, he graduated from Keio University with a degree in Chinese literature before entering the training monastery at Tenryu-ji Temple in Kyoto. He currently serves as the chief priest of Fukujuji Temple while continuing his literary career. His fiction explores themes of life, death, spirituality, and humanity through a distinctly Buddhist perspective. He received the Akutagawa Prize in 2001 for "Chuin no Hana" and the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize in 2014 for "Hikari no Yama." His best-known work, "Chuin no Hana" ("Flowers of the Intermediate State"), is a collection of interconnected stories that examines grief, impermanence, and the relationship between the living and the dead through the Buddhist concept of the intermediate state between death and rebirth.
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