Akutagawa Prize
Takagi started writing love stories and made her fiction debut in 1980 with "Sono hosoki michi" (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories "Tôsugiru tomo" (A Distant Friend, 1981), "Oikaze" (A Following Wind, 1982), and "". "Hikari idaku tomo yo", a story about the emotional lives of two high school girls, won the 90th Akutagawa Prize.