Akutagawa

In 1983, Kara won the prestigious Akutagawa Award for new writers for his novel “Letters from Sagawa.”

The story won the 1958 Akutagawa Prize, a top honor for rising authors.

The story won the prestigious Akutagawa prize for new writers, with Oe hailed as the most promising young writer since Mishima Yukio.

Published in 1958, when Oe was still a university student, the story won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa prize for new writers.

A graduate of Tokyo University, where he studied French Literature, Oe began publishing stories while still a student and won the Akutagawa Prize, a career-launching award for new writers, in 1958.