In The Japan Daily Press Adam Westlake reports that 2 female authors win prestigious Akutagawa, Naoki literature awards, as:
Two female authors in Japan have each won one of Japan's honored literary prizes. The 147th Akutagawa Prize, given to up-and-coming fiction authors, was received by Maki Kashimada for her story Meido Meguri ("Touring the land of the dead"). Mizuki Tsujimura, writer of Kagi no Nai Yume o Miru ("Having a dream without a key"), was the 147th recipient of the Naoki Prize, awarded to semi-recognized fiction writers.