THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 20, 2023 at 18:19 JST
From right, Iko Idogawa and Atsushi Sato, the winners of the Akutagawa Prize, along with Satoshi Ogawa and Akane Chihaya, the winners of the Naoki Prize, hold up their award-winning works at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 19. (Tsubasa Setoguchi)
SENDAI--The quiet environment where Atsushi Sato works as a bookstore clerk was turned upsidedown after he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for his novel “Arechi no Kazoku” (A family in the wasteland). [Read More]
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