Akazome wins Akutagawa award

TOKYO, Japan - Author Akiko Akazome holds the June edition of literary magazine Shincho which published her fiction in Tokyo on July 15, 2010. Akazome was awarded the 143rd Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors for her work ''Otome no Mikkoku'' (The Anonymous Tip of a Virgin).

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