International Herald Tribune (Herald Asahi):; Months after a stunning triumph, Yang Yi still chooses her words carefully as she explains how she learned Japanese and; why she decided to write in the language of her adopted home.

Yang, the 139th winner of the prestigious Akutagawa prize, is the first non-native Japanese speaker to pick up the literary award Her winning work "Toki ga Nijimu Asa" (Morning when time bleeds) is about Chinese students during the era of the Chinese pro-democracy movement Yang's new book "Kingyo Seikatsu" (The life of goldfish), her first since winning the Akutagawa prize, is a love story about a Chinese woman who loses her husband in an accident...