Harada was nominated twice more for the Naoki Prize without winning . In 2013 Harada 's novel '' '' , a work of historical fiction that tells stories about French painters Claude Monet , Henri Matisse , Edgar Degas , and Paul Cezanne from the perspective of women in their lives , was nominated for the 149th Naoki Prize . Her 2016 suspense novel '' '' , a thriller about the return of Picasso 's '' Guernica '' to the Museum of Modern Art that combines a fictionalized historical account of French photographer Dora Maar with an entirely fictional narrative about an art curator in New York City following the September 11 attacks , was nominated for the 155th Naoki Prize
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Maha Harada