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穴 (The Hole) by Hiroko Oyamada — book cover

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Akutagawa Prize2013Winner

About the Author

Hiroko Oyamada is a Japanese author born in Hiroshima in 1983, best known for her novellas The Factory, which won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, and The Hole, which earned the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.

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