The presentation ceremony for the 168th Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize was held in Tokyo on the 22nd, and the four award-winning artists expressed their joy.
The 168th Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize were selected at a selection meeting last month. Token" and Akane Chihaya's "Shirogane no Ha" were selected.
On the 22nd, an award presentation ceremony was held in Tokyo, and the four winners were presented with a commemorative gift and a list of the prize money.
Afterwards, the winners gave their greetings.
Akutagawa Prize: Ms. Shoko Idogawa "I write to resist fear"
Akutagawa Prize winner Idogawa said, ``There are many things that scare me, such as forgetting memories, fighting with people, and living with the instability of barely standing here. I think I'm writing to fight back.I will continue to write hard," he said.
Akutagawa Prize Atsushi Sato "A novel that becomes a circuit between people and places"
Sato, who also received the Akutagawa Prize, spoke in the dialect of his hometown of Miyagi Prefecture, saying, "When I returned to Sendai and reported to my mother that I had won the Akutagawa Prize, she said, 'If you do your best, you can win another one.' I would like to continue writing little by little.I would like to become a writer by writing novels that create a circuit between people and places. I was talking.
Naoki Prize Satoshi Ogawa "A novel that can answer the reader's self"
Mr. Ogawa, who won the Naoki Prize, said, ``I don't really feel like I'm writing a novel in the first place, and I feel like I'm reading what I wrote. I would like to continue writing interesting novels that can meet my own needs."
Naoki Prize Akane Chihaya "A work that transcends even time"
Chihaya, who also won the Naoki Prize, said, "I'm feeling that feeling right now when a senior writer told me, 'If you go to the venue, someone you love will celebrate with you.' I have always believed that novels are a medium for writing about things that cannot be seen with the naked eye.Smells, textures, and human emotions, things that cannot be photographed, cannot be recorded, and can transcend time, will continue to be produced in the future. I want to write," he said.