Japan Tanka Poets Club Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 11 (1984) award
Yasufumi Suzuki
すずき やすふみ
Suzuki Yasufumi
Aliases:
鈴机康文
Pen Names:
Yasufumi（Short-name pen name used for publishing short stories）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- writer, novelist
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Shinsei Literary Prize | Sea of Memories | — | Shinsei Literary Foundation | winner |
Shinsei Literary Prize
2024
Work:
Sea of Memories
Organization:
Shinsei Literary Foundation
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Sea of Memories
2023 Novel 320 pagesA multi-generational story exploring memories tied to the sea. Past and present intersect as the contours of remembrance gradually become clear.
memoryfamilythe sea
Bibliography
- Sea of Memories
- Night Passage
- Short Stories: Garden of Light
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- introspective, lyrical prosedescriptive attention to detail
- Recurring Motifs
- seamemoryoverlapping time
Legacy
Recognized for blending regional specificity with universality, regarded as one of the notable new voices in contemporary Japanese literature.
Quotes
-
Memory, like the sea, ebbs and flows and sometimes returns to the same shore.
Source: Sea of Memories (2023) (2023)
Trivia
- Occasionally publishes short stories under a pen name.
- Public biographical information is limited.