Presentation ceremony for the Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize
The presentation ceremony of the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize was held in Tokyo on the evening of 20th. Masato Furukawa, who won the Akutagawa Prize, and Soichi Kawagoe, a Naoki Prize, talked about the award and their future ambitions.
In the 162nd Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize, Masato Furukawa's "Tall Awatakusa" was selected for the Akutagawa Prize last month, and Soichi Kawagoe's "Heat Source" was selected for the Naoki Prize.
On the evening of the 20th, a prize presentation ceremony was held in Tokyo, and the winners were given a commemorative pocket watch and a list of prize money, followed by a speech.
Among them, Mr. Furukawa of the Akutagawa Prize said, "I feel like I'm standing in this place because the people who are dead who are drawing in the work are discouraged and my feelings are standing here." I think that the people who gathered were disciplined and received the Akutagawa Prize, so please continue to tap your back in the future. "
Mr. Kawagoe of the Naoki Prize said, `` I am very honored to receive a great prize, but it is a work that I have already finished writing, and I am filled with the desire to write the next work more interesting than this work. '' On top of that, based on the fact that it is based on actual history, he concludes, `` I would like to thank all those who lived in the past again because no work was born without the life of the past people '' Was.