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Bungei Award ぶんげいしょう

Edition 16 (1979)

Medium-length novelFull-length novel

Winners

2 people
Meiou Masako めいおう まさこ award

Published as a Bungei Prize-winning short piece, it captures fragments of a woman’s memory and feelings with a brief, glimpse-like gaze fitting the word ‘glimpse.’ Rather than the events themselves, it leaves behind fragmentary sensations.

Fragments of a woman’s gaze remain like brief flashes of light.

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Katsunori Miyauchi みやうち かつのり award

Published as a runner-up for the Bungei Prize, this short piece follows the air and sense of movement evoked by the words ‘south wind’ in a gentle style. Rather than major events, it stands out as a work that reads the shifting of sensation.

Each time the south wind blows, the direction of feeling changes a little.

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