Ito wins Akutagawa literary prize following wife's Naoki prize

TOKYO, Japan - Takami Ito (L) wins the 135th Akutagawa Prize on July 13 for promising new writers of serious fiction, a year after his wife Mitsuyo Kakuta received the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction last year. The Naoki Prize this year was given to Shion Miura (C) and Eto Mori (R).

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