{"id":2282,"date":"2014-07-24T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2014-07-24T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:11:35","slug":"shibasaki-wins-akutagawa-award-kurokawa-wins-naoki-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/shibasaki-wins-akutagawa-award-kurokawa-wins-naoki-prize","title":{"rendered":"Shibasaki wins Akutagawa award, Kurokawa wins Naoki Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">TOKYO, July 17, Kyodo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/07\/07170051-thumbx248.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/07\/07170051-thumbx248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shibasaki wins Akutagawa award, Kurokawa wins Naoki Prize\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/07\/07170051-thumbx248.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novelist Tomoka Shibasaki won the Akutagawa literary award for up-and-coming authors of pure literature, while the Naoki Prize, another renowned award for popular fiction, <!--more-->went to novelist Hiroyuki Kurokawa, the selection committee said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Shibasaki, a 40-year-old native of Osaka, won the 151th prize for her work &#8220;Haru No Niwa&#8221; (Spring garden), which depicts the relationship between a woman who moves to Tokyo and her neighbor, who lives in a house that she started yearning for after seeing it in a photo book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still don&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said Shibasaki, who won the award after being nominated for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p>Novelist Nobuko Takagi, a member of the selection committee, said her work was of a much higher quality and maturity compared with her previous novels nominated for the award.<\/p>\n<p>Kurokawa, a 65-year-old native of Ehime Prefecture, was awarded the prize for &#8220;Hamon&#8221; (Excommunication), the story of a gang member and a construction consultant trying to find some stolen money.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.kyodonews.jp\/news\/2014\/07\/302749.html\"><strong>For detail please visit here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, July 17, Kyodo Novelist Tomoka Sh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/shibasaki-wins-akutagawa-award-kurokawa-wins-naoki-prize\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[662,664,663,660,661],"views":1271,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}