The 166th Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize presentation ceremony was held in Tokyo, and three writers accepted the award and stated their aspirations for the future.
Of the three people who attended the presentation ceremony, Bunji Sunakawa, who was selected for the Akutagawa Prize in the "Black Box", first shouted and surprised the people around him.
After that, "I'm often asked,'Are you angry?', But I wrote this work with the feeling that I'm not angry. I will continue to write with that feeling." I greeted you.
Shogo Imamura, who was selected for the Naoki Prize for the "Kouou no Tate", said, "I was sometimes worried that the words I said,'If you do your best, your dreams will come true' are irresponsible. I want to keep saying. I haven't become a novelist yet, so I want to keep writing interesting works so that I can say that I became a novelist on the verge of death. "
Honobu Yonezawa, who was selected for the Naoki Prize at "Kurojukujo", said, "This time, as a result of writing the heart and culture of people as precisely as possible from the trailhead called Mystery, the universality of the novel has reached its reach. I think it may be. As a person who dealt with war and those who die in the war, I sincerely hope that all wars will end as soon as possible and that there will be fewer people who are sad or hurt. I will. "