Dazai Osamu Award
1 appearances
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Edition 32 (2016) award
Yoduri Juroku
よづり じゅうろく
Yoduri Jūroku
Pen Names:
Ito Maki（Used as a pen name for submissions and some short-story publications）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1988-00-00 （Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
- Active Years
- 2016-
- Influenced By
- Ray Bradbury, Akira Yoshimura
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Yukinomachi Fantasy Literary Prize (26th, Grand Prize) | Winter Insect | 大賞 | Prism (Kikakudan Purizumu) / Yukinomachi Fantasy Literary Prize Committee | Winner |
| 2016 | Dazai Osamu Prize (32nd) | Paradise | — | Chikuma Shobo & Mitaka City | Winner |
| 2017 | R-18 Literary Prize for Women by Women — Tomochika Prize | Moon and Apple | 友近賞 | R-18 Literary Prize Committee (organized by Yoshimoto, etc.) | Winner |
Yukinomachi Fantasy Literary Prize (26th, Grand Prize)
2016
Work:
Winter Insect
Category:
大賞
Organization:
Prism (Kikakudan Purizumu) / Yukinomachi Fantasy Literary Prize Committee
Result:
Winner
Dazai Osamu Prize (32nd)
2016
Work:
Paradise
Organization:
Chikuma Shobo & Mitaka City
Result:
Winner
R-18 Literary Prize for Women by Women — Tomochika Prize
2017
Work:
Moon and Apple
Category:
友近賞
Organization:
R-18 Literary Prize Committee (organized by Yoshimoto, etc.)
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Paradise (Rakuen)
2017 NovelA novel addressing Japan's wartime history and the human relationship to war. Praised for its depth in examining war, memory, and personal responsibility from the author's generational perspective.
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Bibliography
- Paradise (Chikuma Shobo, Apr 2017)
- Moon and Apple (short story; Shosetsu Shincho, May 2017; as Ito Maki)
- Traverse (short story; Shosetsu Gendai, Mar 2018; as Ito Maki)
- Stepping on Grapes (short story; Shosetsu Shincho, May 2018; as Ito Maki)
- Queen of the Night (essay; Gunzo, Nov 2016; as Yoduri Juroku)
- Winter Insect (short story; included in Yukinomachi Fantasy Literary Prize Anthology 26, Mar 2017; as Ito Maki)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical and fantastical elements with careful psychological depiction
- Recurring Motifs
- winterthe moonapplesdeath and loss
Legacy
An emerging writer who gained attention after winning the Dazai Osamu Prize; noted for confronting themes of war and memory and for delicate psychological描写.
Quotes
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A work of unprecedented depth that attempts to comprehensively consider war as one can imagine it at one's current age and its relation to human beings.
Source: Arakawa Yōji (comment by a judge for the 32nd Dazai Osamu Prize) / Mitaka City announcement (2016) -
The pen name was chosen because the group of novel enthusiasts centered on an acquaintance of a late senior — the 'Yozuri no Kai' — numbered sixteen including myself.
Source: Author interview (statement at time of award) (2016)
Trivia
- Began writing stories around age 14.
- The pen name derives from a literary circle called 'Yozuri no Kai' (16 members including the author).
- Official X (formerly Twitter) account: @makiito55.