Award-winning writer Kono dies at 88

Award-winning writer Kono dies at 88

File photo taken in October 2014 shows writer and critic Taeko Kono, who died of respiratory failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 29, 2015, at 88. She won the Akutagawa Prize, one of the country's leading literary awards, for her novel "Kani," meaning "a crab," in 1963, and received the Order of Culture in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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