Mieko Kawakami's "Heaven" was selected as the final candidate for the Booker Prize, which is the translation category of the most prestigious literary prize "Booker Prize" in the United Kingdom.
On the 7th, the organization that hosts the Booker Prize in the United Kingdom announced the final six works of the Booker Prize in the translation category, and the novel "Heaven" by Akutagawa Prize-winning author Mieko Kawakami was selected.
The Booker Prize is the most prestigious literary prize in the UK, and the Booker Prize in the translation category was created in 2005, and the 2018 award-winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk has since won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Yoko Ogawa's "The Memory Police" was selected as her final candidate, but she didn't win the award.
The award-winning works will be announced on the 26th of next month.