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Japan Children's Literature Association Newcomer Award にほんじどうぶんがくしゃきょうかいしんじんしょう

Edition 25 (1992)

Creative writingCriticism and research

Winners

2 people
Nahoko Uehashi うえはし なおこ award

Tsuki no Mori ni, Kami yo Nemure is an ancient fantasy about a serpent deity in the Moon Forest and a human shrine maiden, exploring the relationship between gods and people, nature and civilization. Through a story touched by tragedy, it asks what bonds can exist between beings who live by different kinds of time.

In a forest where gods and humans meet, awe toward nature and the desire for coexistence become story.

243 pages
mythnature and humanityancient fantasy
Sumiko Yokokawa よこかわ すみこ award

Shoucho to Iu Kirifuda is a critical work that reexamines discourse around girlhood from the perspectives of children’s literature and cultural criticism. It reads the relations among girls, bodies, gender, and narrative, bringing a critical angle to established theories of the girl.

It reconsiders the premises of stories and criticism about girls from the sides of body and culture.

215 pages
girlhood studieschildren’s literature criticismfeminist criticism