Japanese Literary Awards

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daigaku dokushojin taishō

Edition 6 (2013)

Literature

Winners

6 people
Housuke Nojiri のじり ほうすけ grand prize

A linked science-fiction collection that connects video-sharing culture, vocal synthesis, and space development. Its near-future optimism turns internet participation into a force that reaches beyond Earth.

Network culture and space dreams meet in a bright near-future SF collection.

311 pages
space developmentnetwork culturevocal synthesis
伊藤計劃×円城塔 いとう けいかく × えんじょう とう 2nd place

A speculative novel set in a nineteenth century transformed by technology for reanimating the dead. The journey of John Watson becomes an inquiry into bodies, souls, empire, and the meaning of consciousness.

A compact work whose appeal lies in the pressure of memory, language, and the lives it depicts.

459 pages
the deadempireconsciousness
Hiroko Minagawa みながわ ひろこ 2nd place

A mystery set around a wartime mission school, where a notebook passed among girls blurs fiction and reality. Its atmosphere combines schoolgirl secrecy, gothic beauty, and narrative traps.

A compact work whose appeal lies in the pressure of memory, language, and the lives it depicts.

352 pages
girls' schoolmetafictiongothic mystery
Chohei Kanbayashi かんばやし ちょうへい 4th place

いま集合的無意識を、 is a Japanese literary work by 神林長平. The book is presented here through confirmed bibliographic sources and award records.

A compact work whose appeal lies in the pressure of memory, language, and the lives it depicts.

256 pages
memorylanguagehuman relationships
Genichiro Takahashi たかはし げんいちろう 5th place

A collection of stories about fathers, children, stories, and the fragile courage needed after disaster. Familiar literary figures and everyday conversations open into reflections on fiction's power to resist emptiness.

A compact work whose appeal lies in the pressure of memory, language, and the lives it depicts.

220 pages
memorylanguagehuman relationships
Yusuke Kishi きし ゆうすけ 6th place

A young man transformed into a game piece is drawn into a red-versus-blue battle in an otherworldly space resembling Hashima Island. The novel combines game rules with survival tension while depicting desire and obsession with competition.

On an otherworldly battlefield, the logic of competition exposes human darkness.

496 pages
game fictionsurvivalshogiotherworld