Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう
Edition 73 (1975)
Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story
Winners
1 peopleThe Site of the Festival is Kyoko Hayashi's representative work, depicting the experience of the Nagasaki atomic bombing in a restrained style. Rather than shouting, it inscribes the time of the bomb into literature through bodily memory and silence.
An Akutagawa Prize work that turns the Nagasaki bombing experience into deep shock through restrained language.
398 pages
atomic bombing experiencememoryNagasakiwar literature