Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Award
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (2009) grand prize
Taro Soshirou
たろう そうしろう
Taro Soshirou
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Prize | Togio | 大賞 | Takarajimasha | winner |
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Prize
Work:
Togio
Category:
大賞
Organization:
Takarajimasha
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Togio
Science fictionAn SF novel about a boy ostracized in his home village who goes to the fictional future city "Tokyo (Togio)" and becomes entangled in the covert struggles behind the conflict between conservative and progressive forces.
rural vs. urbanpolitical conflictcoming of age
Bibliography
- Togio
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- social science fiction tendenciesnarration centered on a youth perspective
- Recurring Motifs
- village societyurban planningprogress vs. conservatism
Legacy
Noted as one of the grand prize winners of the 8th Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award; however, documentation and secondary sources are limited, so information about the work and author remains sparse.
Trivia
- The corresponding Wikipedia article is a stub and notes a lack of sources.
- Reported to have shared the grand prize of the 8th Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award with a work by Nakayama Shichiri.