Art Encouragement Prize for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
1 appearances
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Edition 32 (1982) award
Shigeyoshi Mori
もり しげよし
Mori Shigeyoshi
Pen Names:
Shigeyoshi Mori（Used as main pen name since debut）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1975-04-12 （Tokyo, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Tokyo (birth–present) → Kyoto Prefecture (short residency as creative base)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, essayist
- Active Years
- 2000-
- Influenced By
- Haruki Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata
- Influenced
- Emerging Author A
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waseda University | Faculty of Letters | Department of Literature | 文学士 | 1994-1998 | Japan |
Waseda University
Faculty of Letters
/ Department of Literature
Degree:
文学士
Period:
1994-1998
Year of Graduation:
1998
Country:
Japan
Began writing short stories while enrolled; received a student literary prize
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Akutagawa Prize | The Distant Garden | 純文学 | Japan Literary Promotion Association | winner |
Akutagawa Prize
2012
Work:
The Distant Garden
Category:
純文学
Organization:
Japan Literary Promotion Association
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Distant Garden
2011 Novel 320 pagesA novel tracing memory and family fragments. The protagonist living in the city revisits traces of the past left in a hometown garden, depicting intergenerational gaps and loneliness.
memoryfamilyurban loneliness
Adaptations
- [Film] The Distant Garden / 中村健太 (2015)
Translations
- English translation: The Distant Garden (2014)
Map of Dawn
2006 Short story collection 210 pagesA short story collection depicting people living on the margins of the city. Characterized by a style that draws unsettling emotions from everyday details.
breakdown of everyday lifeisolation
Bibliography
- Map of Dawn (2006)
- The Distant Garden (2011)
- Transparent Edge (2014)
- Listening to the Sea (2018)
Adaptations
- The Distant Garden (film, 2015)
Translations of Works
- The Distant Garden — translated into English (2014)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- quiet, introspective proserealistic attention to detail
- Recurring Motifs
- gardens and plantsold photographsthe passage of seasons
Legacy
An author acclaimed for depictions of memory and everyday life in contemporary Japanese literature. Influential on younger writers and noted for contributions to literary journals and lectures.
Academic Societies
- Japan Writers' Association
Quotes
-
The past, like a garden, reveals itself from time to time if tended.
Source: The Distant Garden (2011) (2011)
Trivia
- Won a student literary prize for a short story during university.
- Enjoys gardening; plant descriptions frequently appear in works.