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Murata wins Akutagawa literary award, Ogiwara wins Naoki Prize

Hiroshi Ogiwara (L) and Sayaka Murata pose with their novels at a hotel in Tokyo on July 19, 2016, after being awarded the Naoki Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, respectively. Ogiwara, 60, won the prize for popular fiction for "Umi no Mieru Rihatsuten" (Barber Shop with View of Sea) while Murata, 36, was given the prize for up-and-coming authors for "Kombini Ningen" (Convenience Store Woman). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Murata wins Akutagawa literary award, Ogiwara wins Naoki Prize

Hiroshi Ogiwara (L) and Sayaka Murata pose with their novels at a hotel in Tokyo on July 19, 2016, after being awarded the Naoki Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, respectively. Ogiwara, 60, won the prize for popular fiction for "Umi no Mieru Rihatsuten" (Barber Shop with View of Sea) while Murata, 36, was given the prize for up-and-coming authors for "Kombini Ningen" (Convenience Store Woman). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese novelist Sayaka Murata

Undated photo shows Japanese novelist Sayaka Murata. Her work "Kombini Ningen" (Convenience Store Woman), for which she won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2016, has been selected as one of the New Yorker magazine's nine Best Books of 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo