Dazai Osamu Award
1 appearances
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Edition 30 (2014) award
Ikoi Koma
いこい こま
Ikoi Koma
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1979-00-00 （Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
- Active Years
- 2014-
- Influenced By
- Osamu Dazai
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo University of Foreign Studies | Faculty of Foreign Studies | — | — | — | Japan |
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Faculty of Foreign Studies
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Dazai Osamu Prize | Kon and Anji | 小説 | Chikuma Shobo & Mitaka City | 受賞 |
| 2015 | Tetsuken Heterotopia Literary Prize | — | — | Tetsuken Heterotopia Literary Prize | 受賞 |
Dazai Osamu Prize
2014
Work:
Kon and Anji
Category:
小説
Organization:
Chikuma Shobo & Mitaka City
Result:
受賞
Tetsuken Heterotopia Literary Prize
2015
Organization:
Tetsuken Heterotopia Literary Prize
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Kon and Anji
2014 FictionA concise short novel that eschews extraneous detail. Praised for its world that lightly crosses boundaries of gender, national borders and language, leaving a mythic aftertaste.
boundarieslanguagemythic elements
Kaze no Hi
2019 Picture bookA picture book (illustrated by Nishiin Shiho). A children's book that portrays everyday life and nature from a gentle perspective.
everyday lifenaturechildren
Bibliography
- Kon and Anji (Chikuma Shobo, 2014)
- Kaze no Hi (Ishida Seihon, 2019)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Concise, spare proseDescriptions with mythic undertones
- Recurring Motifs
- boundarieslanguagefamily and children
Legacy
A young writer who came to attention after winning the 30th Dazai Osamu Prize. Her boundary-transcending style has been praised; she works in both short fiction and children's picture books.
Quotes
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By avoiding extraneous writing, she easily leaps over boundaries such as gender, national borders, and language differences, creating a kind of mythic world.
Source: Yoko Ogawa (comment as a judge of the 30th Dazai Osamu Prize) (2014)
Trivia
- She read Osamu Dazai's works avidly when she was in junior high school.
- She cited having time after her child's night crying stopped as the reason she entered submissions.
- Authority identifiers such as VIAF, WorldCat and the National Diet Library exist for her.