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Da Vinci Literary Award だ・ヴィンチぶんがくしょう

Edition 2 (2007)

Novel

Winners

3 people
Mako Takihane たきはね まこ grand prize

A coming-of-age novel about Yuko, a high school student who slowly finds a place for herself through a bakery and her family life. Memories of bread and the distance between people are drawn with warmth.

A coming-of-age novel about Yuko, a high school student who slowly finds a place for herself through a bakery and her family life.

144 pages
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曽我部敦史 そがべ あつし excellence award

山下バッティングセンター is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures. It draws the distortions of its time from concrete scenes.

山下バッティングセンター is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures.

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岡本蒼 おかもと あお editor-in-chief special prize

FISH IN THE SKY, by 岡本蒼, is an award-recognized work. It follows the movement of its characters’ minds and surrounding world, drawing out the conflict and change behind its concise title.

FISH IN THE SKY, by 岡本蒼, is an award-recognized work.

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