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Dengeki Novel Grand Prize でんげきしょうせつたいしょう

Edition 9 (2002)

Light novelNewcomer literary award

Winners

3 people
Kabei Yukako かべい ゆかこ grand prize

Kieli, a fourteen-year-old girl who can see the dead, meets Harvey, an undead young man, and the spirit of a sergeant inhabiting a small radio. Set in a devastated world, this fantasy follows their journey through encounters and farewells with ghosts. It won the Grand Prize at the 9th Dengeki Game Novel Award.

A girl who can see the dead travels with an undead young man and the spirit of a sergeant inhabiting a radio.

304 pages
the deadjourneysbelonging
Wataru Takano たかの かず gold prize

On a continent where seven major cities each champion a princess said to be the late king's hidden child, nine-year-old orphan Karasumi is chosen as princess of Kassen. Raised under the protection of General Ten Fou and strategist Toel Tau, she faces an invasion from neighboring Tsuzumi at the age of twelve and must confront her own destiny.

An oriental fantasy in which an orphaned girl lives through an age of conflict as a princess on a continent divided among seven cities.

296 pages
national unificationprincesseswarcoming of agedestinypolitics
Ryohgo Narita なりた りょうご silver prize

In Prohibition-era New York, the fates of people who seem unconnected—a Camorra organization, a thief couple, mafia brothers, police, and an alchemist—begin to converge. This ensemble fantasy revolves around the return of an elixir of immortality.

An ensemble fantasy in which diverse lives converge around an elixir of immortality in Prohibition-era New York.

328 pages
Prohibition eraNew York Citymafiaalchemyimmortality