Japanese Literary Awards

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Bungakukai Newcomer Award ぶんがくかいしんじんしょう

Edition 3 (1957)

LiteratureNewcomer award

Winners

2 people
Itaru Kikumura きくむら いたる award

Illegal Possession is a short story in which police trace an illegally held handgun after the nighttime killing of a taxi driver. Following an investigation with few clues, it portrays urban crime and human connections.

Clues surrounding the gun left by a killing set an investigation into the city's shadows in motion.

316 pages
crimecriminal investigationillegal gun possessionurban societysuspensehuman relationships
野淵敏 のぶち さとし honorable mention

Song of Water is a Japanese short story by Satoshi Nobuchi. It received an honorable mention in the 1957 Bungeikai Newcomer Award.

A short story by Satoshi Nobuchi that received an honorable mention in the 1957 Bungeikai Newcomer Award.

postwar Japanese literatureshort fictionliterary magazines