Japan Children's Literature Association Criticism Newcomer Award
にほんじどうぶんがくしゃきょうかいひょうろんしんじんしょう
Newcomer award for children's literature criticism hosted by the Japan Children's Literature Association.
- Established
- 2003
- Organizer
- Japan Children's Literature Association
- Category
- Criticism and Critical Writing
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- Held every other year
- Application Deadline
- around December
- Announcement Period
- around May
- Status
- Active
Description
Established in 2003, this is an open call newcomer award targeting unpublished children's literature criticism on free themes. Open to both professionals and amateurs, it is the only public award in the children's literature world that exclusively targets criticism.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication in the "Japan Children's Literature" magazine
- Winning entries published in July-August issue
- Honorable mentions also considered for publication
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application reception | Japan Children's Literature Association | — | Deadline at end of December |
| Selection | Selection committee | — | Judges' comments published in May-June issue of "Japan Children's Literature" |
| Award ceremony | Japan Children's Literature Association | — | Late May |
Criteria
- Must be unpublished children's literature criticism
- Free theme
- Open to professionals and amateurs
Application Tips
Dos
- Papers previously published in doujinshi etc. must be revised and this fact clearly stated upon submission
Related Awards
- Japan Children's Literature Association Newcomer Award
- Japan Children's Literature Association Award
- Mitsukoshi Sachio Juvenile Poetry Award
- Japan SF Criticism Award
- Sogensha Mystery Criticism Award
- Contemporary Tanka Criticism Award
- Contemporary Haiku Criticism Award
- Subaru Critique Award
Official Resources
https://jibunkyo.main.jp/Past Winners
第10回日本児童文学者協会評論新人賞の佳作論文として、朝比奈あすか『君たちは今が世界』を起点にした評論が選ばれた。
A commendation essay for the 10th Jibunkyo Criticism Newcomer Award was selected, using Asuka Asahina’s Kimitachi wa Ima ga Sekai as its starting point.
Tomoo Kimura's "When a Parent Becomes Mentally Ill" was selected for an honorable mention in the Japan Children's Literature Association Criticism Newcomer Award. It addresses the urgent situation of children facing a parent's mental illness and asks how children's literature can receive and narrate such experience.
A critical essay that looks at parental mental illness and children's experience from the perspective of children's literature.
Yusuke Tominaka's "The Sixtieth-Year Kirin: An Essay on Chiaki Saeki's Moeyo Ki no Hana" was selected as an honorable mention in the Japan Children's Literature Association Criticism Newcomer Award. It rereads Saeki's work and considers its maturity and critical significance.
A critical essay that rereads Chiaki Saeki's work and explores the reach of children's literature criticism.
「離脱」できない現実――郊外のイスラム系移民を描いたフランス児童文学の検討 is a 評論・研究 work by 伊藤敬佑 associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.
「離脱」できない現実――郊外のイスラム系移民を描いたフランス児童文学の検討 by 伊藤敬佑 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.
「対等」への希求――二宮由紀子作品における関係性―― is a work by 内川朗子, recorded here as a 受賞 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.
A concise profile of 「対等」への希求――二宮由紀子作品における関係性―― by 内川朗子, including award and bibliographic context.
魔女のモノがたり――藤真知子「まじょ子」シリーズ、あんびるやすこ「なんでも魔女商会」シリーズから読み解く消費社会的感性 is a work by 濱崎桂子, recorded here as a 佳作 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.
A concise profile of 魔女のモノがたり――藤真知子「まじょ子」シリーズ、あんびるやすこ「なんでも魔女商会」シリーズから読み解く消費社会的感性 by 濱崎桂子, including award and bibliographic context.
〈子どもの読書〉について――砂田弘「どこに子どもの文学の根拠をおくか」をめぐる考察 is a work by 谷内田太郎, recorded here as a 佳作 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.
A concise profile of 〈子どもの読書〉について――砂田弘「どこに子どもの文学の根拠をおくか」をめぐる考察 by 谷内田太郎, including award and bibliographic context.
This critical essay rereads children's literature about school evacuation by asking how lived experience is transformed into story. It treats the inheritance of wartime memory not only as preservation of facts but as narrative form for child readers.
It reconsiders how memories of school evacuation become narrative in children's literature.
This critical essay focuses on how children's literature depicts the act of reading the room, asking how stories make invisible social pressure and conformity visible. It treats atmosphere, silence, and adjustment to others as questions of narrative perspective.
A critical essay that reads the atmosphere within children's stories as a matter of relationships and perspective.
金子みすゞ論――空の向こう側 is a work by 渡邉章夫. 『金子みすゞ論――空の向こう側』は渡邉章夫による作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。
金子みすゞ論――空の向こう側 presents 渡邉章夫's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.
「空気」を描く児童文学――小学校中級向け作品から考える―― is a work by 内川朗子. 『「空気」を描く児童文学――小学校中級向け作品から考える――』は内川朗子による作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。
「空気」を描く児童文学――小学校中級向け作品から考える―― presents 内川朗子's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.
グラデーションする世界の果て is a 児童文学評論 by 諸星典子. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.
A focused 児童文学評論 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.
ファンタジー児童文学の可能性に関する考察――小沢正・岡田淳論―― is a 児童文学評論 by 井上乃武. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.
A focused 児童文学評論 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.
A critical essay that considers what place children's literature can occupy in a contemporary media environment. Referring to periodizations of postwar society, it reads changes in children's literature after the war.
A critical essay that rethinks the place of children's literature through changing media environments.
A critical essay on children's books depicting school refusal, focusing on the meaning of the road to school as a maze. It reads children's distance from the school system through narrative structure and emotional movement.
A rereading of the road to school in children's literature about school refusal.
A critical essay on Kaho Nashiki's Karakuri Karakusa, focusing on overlapping worlds and emerging images. It uses the metaphor of holography to grasp the multilayered world of dolls, textiles, shared living, and memory.
A reading of Karakuri Karakusa's layered fictional world through the metaphor of holography.
『うすらでかぶつ』にみる読みの開き方―― 一九七〇年代の入り口をふりかえる by 相川美恵子 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
『うすらでかぶつ』にみる読みの開き方―― 一九七〇年代の入り口をふりかえる by 相川美恵子 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
錯綜する物語――薫くみこ『十二歳の合い言葉』の魅力 by 藤本恵 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
錯綜する物語――薫くみこ『十二歳の合い言葉』の魅力 by 藤本恵 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.