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Haijin Kyokai Hyoron Prize はいじんきょうかいひょうろんしょう

Edition 16 (2001)

HaikuLiterary criticism

Winners

2 people
阿部誠文 あべ まさふみ award

Soviet Internment Haiku: People and Works links the experience of Siberian internment with haiku expression, reading poems written under extreme conditions as literary works. Through the compressed form of haiku, it illuminates war, captivity, and the transmission of memory.

A critical study that rereads memories of internment through voices preserved in haiku.

496 pages
Siberian internmentwar literaturehaiku criticismmemoryprisoner-of-war experience
西嶋あさ子 にしじま あさこ award

Haiku Poet Atsushi Azumi is a critical biography in which Asako Nishijima traces Azumi’s life, work, and place in the haiku world from the perspective of a poet connected to his lineage. With a chronology, it portrays both the man and his achievement within Showa-era haiku.

A critical biography tracing Atsushi Azumi’s haiku and character through lineage, memory, and documents.

214 pages
Atsushi Azumihaiku biographyShowa haikuteacher-student lineagechronology