Japanese Literary Awards

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Edogawa Ranpo Award えどがわらんぽしょう

Edition 40 (1994)

Literary awardMystery novel

Winners

5 people
Hiroyuki Nakajima なかじま ひろゆき award

A legal suspense novel set against prosecutorial investigations and the justice system.

The truth is pursued from inside the prosecutor’s office.

416 pages
legal suspenseprosecutionsocial issues
Satsuki Kirishima きりしま さつき nominee

A short story that uses shifts in gaze and desire to depict the unease of an urban, image-saturated world and the strangeness of the body.

It is visible, yet unreachable.

desirebodyvisuality
Yukio Sonoda そのだ ゆきお nominee

Set in a postwar, desertified world, this science-fiction fantasy follows a journey centered on a divine machine shell and a sleeping girl.

A sleeping girl and a divine machine shell set a boy’s journey in motion.

315 pages
desertmythologyadventurescience-fantasy
Akira Miyake みやけ あきら nominee

白き煉獄 is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about 白き煉獄 remain in award records.

award recordfiction
Reiko Tsurimaki つりまき れいこう nominee

A literary work that follows the small dissonances and emotional shifts hidden beneath everyday life through 川沿いの町.

It carefully gathers the tiny shifts within everyday life.

271 pages
literatureeveryday lifeemotion