Chinese novelist Yang Yi wins Akutagawa literary prize

Chinese novelist Yang Yi wins Akutagawa literary prize

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese novelist Yang Yi expresses her delight after winning Japan's Akutagawa Prize on July 15. Yang, 44, is the first Chinese to win the prestigious literary award. Yang's award-winning novel, ''Tokiga Nijimu Asa'' (A Morning When Time Blurs), written in Japanese, depicts the elation and frustration of the pro-democracy movement in the 1989 Tiananmen Incident. A native of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Yang came to Japan in 1987 and learned Japanese while working as a Chinese-language instructor.

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