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.

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Otani, 44, was calmly expressing her joy at the award ceremony on Thursday where she was presented the Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation for “The Night of Baba Yaga,” which has been lauded for ...

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 ...