Shibasaki wins Akutagawa award

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on July 17, 2014, at a Tokyo hotel shows novelist Tomoka Shibasaki, who won the Akutagawa literary award for up-and-coming authors of pure literature for her novel "Haru No Niwa" (Spring garden).

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