Kotomi Li (1989–) is a Taiwanese-born novelist and translator who has written in Japanese since moving to Japan in 2013. Her fiction explores gender, sexuality, language, and transnational identity from a multicultural perspective. In 2021, she won the 165th Akutagawa Prize for "Higanbana ga Saku Shima" ("The Island Where Red Spider Lilies Bloom"). Set on an imaginary island where a language resembling Japanese is spoken, the novel examines the relationship between language, power, memory, and community through a richly imagined narrative.