Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Akutagawa Prize Winner announced

News of the  winners of the 146th Akutagwa Prize  -

EnJoe Toh for Dokeshi no cho (Clown's Butterfly), and Tanaka Shinya for Tomogui (Cannibalism) 


Naoki Prize winner -

Hamuro Rin for Higurashi no ki (Chronicle of Cicada)


Read more at Junbungaku.com and of course at bunshun.co.jp

3 comments:

@parridhlantern said...

will check out this writer, but real; reason I'm visiting was I thought this might be of interest.

Hoshi Shinichi
http://www.nzasia.org.nz/downloads/NZJAS-Dec03/5.2_8.pdf

me. said...

I've got a copy of a collection of short stories by Hoshi Shinichi which I hope to read at some point in the near future, an interesting author. I don't think that these two stories are included though so thanks for the link!. EnJoe Toh has only a couple of short stories in translation, see the post on Japanese Literature Charity Project to read one, the other is in Speculative Japan 2, published by the Kurodahan Press.

@parridhlantern said...

Yes I've seen the Speculative Japan series & want to check them out further at some point.