Aoyama wins Mishima

[Aaron Gerow]

The publishing house Shincho announced that Aoyama Shinji has been 
awarded the 14th Mishima Yukio Award for Literature for the novelization 
of his film Eureka.  The prize was also awarded to Nakahara Masaya for 
his "Arayuru basho ni hanataba ga..."  The jury included Tsutsui 
Yasutaka, Fukuda Kazuya and Shimada Masahiko.

The URL for the prize home page (Japanese) is: 
http://webshincho.com/mishimasho/

Though they haven't posted the results yet.

I can't think of another case of a novelization of a film winning a 
literary prize in Japan.  Can anyone?

When Aoyama told me about a month ago that he was nominated, he was 
distinctly puzzled by the whole thing.  Clearly, in his mind, the film 
matters and the book, while an interesting excercise, was something very 
different.  Later on, he joked that he was just trying to emulate 
Nakagami Kenji.  We'll see what his public reaction to the prize is.



Aaron Gerow
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