Novelist Otani becomes Japan's 1st to win British crime writing award A Japanese novelist on Thursday became her country's first to win a major British award for crime and mystery writing, highlighting a boom in the popularity of translated Japanese fiction.

Japanese author wins British Dagger Award for Crime Fiction in Translation!

Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga tells of a women kidnapped by the yakuza. What happens next? You'll have to read for yourself!

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