Bungakukai Newcomer Award ぶんがくかいしんじんしょう
Edition 3 (1957)
LiteratureNewcomer award
Winners
2 peopleIllegal 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
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