Asabuki, Nishimura win Akutagawa Prize

Asabuki, Nishimura win Akutagawa Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Mariko Asabuki, a 26-year-old graduate school student at Keio University, speaks of her winning of Japan's Akutagawa Prize for promising writers of serious fiction during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2011. She shared the prize with Kenta Nishimura.

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