Novelists Makoto Furukawa and Soichi Kawagoe to receive Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes
The winners of the prestigious Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards were selected Wednesday, with two novelists earning acclaim for their respective works about the past and present lives of a family in Kyushu and the history of the indigenous Ainu ethnic group in the ...
Three women were named winners of the nation's twice-yearly top literary awards. The Akutagawa Prize, for up-and-coming writers, went to Hiroko Oyamada, 30, for her novel "Ana" ("Hole"), the selection committees said Thursday. The other award, the Naoki Prize, given for popular literature, went to Makate ...
Natsuko Kuroda, 75, the oldest person yet to win the literary Akutagawa Prize, expressed appreciation that jurors discovered her "while I am alive."
