Winners of Japan's coveted literary prizes attend award ceremony

Winners of Japan's coveted literary prizes attend award ceremony

Novelists Masatsugu Ono (L) and Kanako Nishi pose for a photo during an award ceremony in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2015. Ono received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors while Nishi won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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