LONDON—Akira Otani’s gangland thriller centered around two women is the first Japanese work to win the translation division of the prestigious Dagger Awards.

Otani Workshop is a Japanese Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1980. Their work is currently being shown at Vancouver Art Gallery. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Perrotin, Hong ...

Kazuhiko Makita / The Yomiuri Shimbun Novelist Akira Otani gives a speech after receiving a Dagger award in London on Thursday. Cover of “The Night of Baba Yaga” as published in Japanese under the ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun Akira Otani, author of “The Night of Baba Yaga,” the first work by a Japanese author to win the Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation is seen in London on Thursday. The Yomiuri ...