Shogo Imamura, the winner of the Naoki Prize who was preparing to drive around a physical bookstore in Japan
Chinese Herald News (reporter Cheyenne) On January 19, under the epidemic situation in Japan announcing that Tokyo and 12 provinces and cities had entered key areas to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the Japan Wasagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize also announced the list of winners. Fumiji Sagawa's Black Box won the Wasagawa Prize; Shogo Imamura's Shield of the King of Sai and Yonezawa Hoshin's Kuroki Castle won the Naoki Prize.
Fumiji Sagawa, who won the Wasagawa Prize for "Black Box," is 31 years old and has a family of four who are already fathers of two children. He seemed unaccustomed to media interviews, saying he didn't know what to say on such occasions. When he received the news of the award, his wife congratulated him on the award, and the eldest son was playing "Pocket Elf Legend" and could not take care of his father. In order to go to the award ceremony, he told the little child that he was going out when he went out, and the child cried a lot, so at the award ceremony, Sagawa Fumiji said that he felt very sorry for his wife, went out by himself, and threw the crying baby to her.
Naoki Prize winner Hotobu Yonezawa was born in the Hida area of Kifu Prefecture, Japan, and when he was young, he worked as a zero-hour worker in the local bookstore, working in the bookstore while quietly writing, and his colleagues at the time did not know that he would become a writer, only that this person guessed the puzzle very quickly, and in fact Yonezawa Hoshin wrote a work of reasoning.
When the news came that the colleague who used to work together had won the Naoki Prize, the old colleague in the bookstore shed tears of excitement. Naoko Hayashizaki, who used to be Yonezawa's senior at work, said that she really didn't expect it, but I remember that when he got off work, he always went to the nearby family restaurant to write, and muttered that if only this restaurant could be open 24 hours. Some of the scenes in "Black Prison City" are the scenes when I was chatting with my colleagues in the bookstore, "It turned out that he was collecting materials at that time." The old colleague said happily.
Shogo Imamura, another Naoki Prize winner, is a bookstore owner himself. He is well aware of the difficulties of opening a physical bookstore in the era of online shopping, so he cried with excitement when he won the award, and said that he would drive all over Japan's bookstores, signing and selling books at each bookstore just to support bookstores.