Winners of Akutagawa, Naoki literary awards announced

(From L to R) Akira Higashiyama, winner of the Naoki Prize, a literary award for popular fiction, and Naoki Matayoshi and Keisuke Hada, recipients of the Akutagawa Prize, a literary award for up-and-coming novelists, pose for photos at a hotel in Tokyo on July 16, 2015. Matayoshi, a popular 35-year-old comedian, won the award for his debut novel "Hibana" (Sparks), which already has sold about 640,000 copies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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