Yang Yi wins Akutagawa prize, Naoki prize goes to Areno Inoue

Yang Yi wins Akutagawa prize, Naoki prize goes to Areno Inoue

TOKYO, Japan - Akutagawa Prize-winner Yang Yi (L) and Naoki Prize-winner Areno Inoue pose at a news conference in Tokyo on July 15 after they were declared recipients of Japan's two major literary awards. Yang, writing in Japanese, is the first Chinese author to win the Akutagawa prize.

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