Winner of Akutagawa literary prize attends award ceremony

Novelist Masatsugu Ono, winner of the 152nd Akutagawa Prize for budding authors with his "9 Nen Mae no Inori" (A Prayer Nine Years Ago), smiles at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2015. The Akutagawa Prize was named after renowned novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa in 1935. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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