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Gunzo Newcomer Literary Award ぐんぞうしんじんぶんがくしょう

Edition 12 (1969)

Pure literature

Winners

2 people
Ri Kaisei り かいせい award

Ri Kaisei's debut work. Set against the experience of Koreans in postwar Japan, it examines an individual's history and the boundaries created by society.

A debut work that portrays the lives of people in postwar Japan with quiet tension.

Korean Japanese literaturepostwar Japanfamilyidentity
Kojin Karatani からたに こうじん award

A literary essay that rereads Natsume Soseki through the relation between consciousness and nature. It asks how subjectivity works in modern literature by attending to language and form.

A critique that considers the meeting of consciousness and nature in modern literature through Soseki.

424 pages
Natsume Sosekimodern literatureliterary criticismconsciousness and nature