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)
Winners
2 peopleTsuki 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.
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.