It is said that there are more than 500 literary awards in Japan.
The most famous prizes are Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize.
These were established by a famous author Kan Kikuchi in 1935 in honor of great authors, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Sanjugo Naoki.
The winners of 146th Akutagawa, Naoki Prizes will be chosen on 17 January!
Some of the nominated stories are as follows:
"Shiro wo kamaseta otoko" by
Jyun Ito (The man who made a castle bitten) (Nominated for Naoki Pirze)
*English titles are not
official; I translated Japanese titles literally just for this blog article.
Since the winners of these prizes will be very popular, past nominated works might have been translated from Japanese already.
If you look for books written by Japanese authors, I
recommend you to check them out!
