Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Problem:This author began his career with a translation of Anatole Frances 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 Japans highest literary prize.
Solution:
Literature