Edogawa Ranpo Award
1 appearances
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Edition 52 (2006) award
Ren Kaburagi
カブラギ レン
kaburagi ren
Profile
- Gender
- Unknown
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Mystery writer
- Active Years
- 2006-
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Edogawa Rampo Prize | Tokyo Damoi | — | Kodansha | winner |
Edogawa Rampo Prize
2006
Work:
Tokyo Damoi
Organization:
Kodansha
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Tokyo Damoi
2006 Mystery novel 334 pagesMakino, an employee of a Kyoto publisher, is commissioned by an elderly man, Takatsu, to publish a haiku collection about his experiences in Siberian internment. Takatsu disappears and links emerge between a Russian woman's death at Maizuru Port and a murder at a POW camp sixty years earlier, unraveling long-buried secrets in this mystery novel.
Siberian internmentwar and memoryfamily secretsreturn and reconciliation
Bibliography
- Tokyo Damoi (hardcover, Kodansha, 2006)
- Tokyo Damoi (Kodansha Bunko, 2009)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Narrative, tightly structured proseBlends historical facts with fictional investigation
- Recurring Motifs
- the wartime past and its aftermathmemory and restorationsilence as consequence
Legacy
With his debut Tokyo Damoi winning the 52nd Edogawa Rampo Prize, Kaburagi Ren drew attention for mysteries centered on Siberian internment and postwar memory. His blending of wartime memory and private secrets highlighted important themes in contemporary Japanese mystery fiction.
Trivia
- "Damoi" is Russian for "return."
- Debut novel that won the 52nd Edogawa Rampo Prize (awarded the same year as Ran Hayase's debut).
- Hardcover published by Kodansha on 2006-08-10; paperback (Kodansha Bunko) in 2009-08-12.