{"id":1195,"date":"2015-07-16T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2015-07-16T05:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:27:39","slug":"matayoshi-naoki-won-akutagawa-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/16\/matayoshi-naoki-won-akutagawa-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Matayoshi Naoki won Akutagawa prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese comedian, Matayoshi Naoki, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASH7G6HW9H7GUCVL047.html\">won the Akutagawa p<\/a>rize.<\/p>\n<p>He won it jointly with another writer, but this story is making waves as it\u00a0is the first time a comedian wins the award.<\/p>\n<p>Akutagawa prize is the most respected literally prize in Japan, awarded twice a year to the best &#8220;serious&#8221; literary work. By &#8220;serious&#8221; meaning a literary work which is usually less accessible to the wide audience. The Japanese language, its beauty and complexity is one of the goals of this prize.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, Naoki prize is also coveted and it is more &#8220;readable&#8221; or easier (language wise) than Akutagawa prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am currently reading his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/e-book-ebook\/dp\/B00XTYB7EW\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=8-1&amp;qid=1437049601\">&#8220;Spark&#8221;, (Japanese &#8220;\u706b\u82b1\u201d\uff09<\/a>but did not form my opinion on it. One thing is for sure, it is not easy for me to read it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese comedian, Matayoshi Naoki, won the Akutagawa prize. He won it jointly with another writer, but this story is making waves as it\u00a0is the first time a comedian wins the award. Akutagawa prize is the most respected literally prize in Japan, awarded twice a year to the best &#8220;serious&#8221; literary work. By &#8220;serious&#8221; meaning a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/16\/matayoshi-naoki-won-akutagawa-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matayoshi Naoki won Akutagawa prize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}