Tokyo-based Chinese wins top literary award

AFP
Thursday, July 17, 2008 0:00 am

TOKYO –– Tokyo-based Chinese novelist Yang Yi became the first person whose mother tongu

e is not Japanese to win Japan’s most prestigious literary award Tuesday. Her novel “Tokiga Nijimu Asa,” written in Japanese and portraying young Chinese involved in 1989 pro-democracy protests at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, earned Yang the Akutagawa Prize with one million yen (US$9,400) in cash and a watch as additional prizes. The title could be translated into English as “A morning when time blurs.”

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Tokyo-based Chinese wins top literary award

AFPThursday, July 17, 2008 0:00 am

AFP
Thursday, July 17, 2008 0:00 am