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

Edition 28 (1985)

Pure literature

Winners

2 people
Kisun Lee り きしょう winning entry

A Bungei newcomer prize-winning novel that follows a young Zainichi Korean man in South Korea, tracing the shifts in his behavior and state of mind. Its quiet gaze leaves behind a lasting sense of uncertainty about identity.

A young man visits his ancestral homeland and reconsiders the outline of himself between two countries.

166 pages
ZainichiidentityKoreayoung adulthoodmovement
Haruhiko Yoshimeki よしめぎ はるひこ excellent work

Yoshimeki Haruhiko's Bungei newcomer prize-winning work quietly brings a boy's memories and family into focus against the landscape of the American South. It was later included in Louisiana Kudachi.

The scenery of the South and a boy's memories slowly overlap.

274 pages
familycross-cultural lifethe American Southboyhoodmemory