Bungakukai Newcomer Award
1 appearances
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Edition 108 (2009) award
Shirin Nezammafi
シリン・ネザマフィ
Shirin Nezammafi
Aliases:
شیرین نظام مافی / シーリーン・ネザーム＝マーフィー
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1979-11-10 （Tehran, Iran）
- Nationality
- Iran
- Languages
- Japanese, Persian, English
- Residence History
- Tehran, Iran → Kobe, Japan → Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Systems Engineer
- Active Years
- 1993-
- Affiliations
- Panasonic
- Influenced By
- Kobo Abe
- Nominations
- 141st Akutagawa Prize nominee (2009), 143rd Akutagawa Prize nominee (2010)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kobe University | Faculty of Engineering | — | 学士 | — | Japan |
| Graduate School of Natural Science, Kobe University | Master's program | Information Intelligence Engineering | 修士 | — | Japan |
Kobe University
Faculty of Engineering
Degree:
学士
Country:
Japan
Graduate School of Natural Science, Kobe University
Master's program
/ Information Intelligence Engineering
Degree:
修士
Country:
Japan
Completed research in information intelligence engineering
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 4th Ryugakusei (Foreign Students) Literary Prize | Salam | — | Ryugakusei Literary Prize | 受賞 |
| 2009 | 108th Bungeikai Newcomer Prize | White Paper | — | Bungeikai | 受賞 |
4th Ryugakusei (Foreign Students) Literary Prize
2006
Work:
Salam
Organization:
Ryugakusei Literary Prize
Result:
受賞
108th Bungeikai Newcomer Prize
2009
Work:
White Paper
Organization:
Bungeikai
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
White Paper / Salam
2009 Coming-of-age novel / NovelA coming-of-age novel depicting the love between students during the Iran–Iraq War. Noted for precise descriptive power and an unconventional style that maintains a near-first-person perspective without using explicit first-person pronouns.
border-crossingwarcoming-of-ageromancememoryidentity
Hakudō (Palpitation)
2010 Short storyA short story that delicately depicts fluctuations of the human inner life and emotion.
emotional fluctuationhuman relationshipsmemory
Bibliography
- White Paper / Salam (Bungei Shunju, 2009)
- Salam (short story, 2006)
- Hakudō (short story, 2010)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- a near-first-person perspective without using explicit first-person pronounsprecise, detailed descriptiona border-crossing viewpoint (perspectives shaped by multiple languages/cultures)
- Recurring Motifs
- language and identitymemories of waryouth and coming-of-ageborder-crossing
Legacy
Notable as an example of a non-native Japanese author winning a major domestic literary prize; recognized for contributions to border-crossing literature and for bringing diverse perspectives to Japanese letters.
Archives
- Collections at the National Diet Library (NDL)
Quotes
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Influenced by a friend who lived in Japan during junior high because of her father's job, she became interested in Japan, noting practices such as lining up removed shoes neatly as examples of Japanese meticulousness.
Source: Asahi Shimbun (interview, 2009) (2009)
Trivia
- Wrote her first novel at age 14.
- Graduated from Kobe University Faculty of Engineering; completed a master's program at Kobe University Graduate School of Natural Science.
- Employed at Panasonic as a systems engineer; assigned to the Dubai branch from June 2009.
- One of the few non-native Japanese authors to win a major Japanese literary prize (second to win Bungeikai Newcomer Prize as a foreign-born author; first from a non–Chinese-character-speaking region).