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Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Award にほんファンタジーノベルたいしょう

Edition 6 (1994)

Fantasy novel

Winners

5 people
Eiichi Ikegami いけがみ えいいち grand prize

A debut novel set on an Okinawan island. It weaves in local life and folktales to evoke the island’s memory in vivid detail.

A debut novel that gathers the memory of an Okinawan island through folklore and everyday life.

262 pages
Okinawafolklorefamily
Minoru Ginbayashi ぎんばやし みのる excellence award

A novel that layers suburban transmission towers with children’s sense of adventure, letting reality and fantasy blend gently together.

A journey along transmission towers toward the “secret place” everyone once dreamed of finding.

246 pages
suburbsadventurereality and fantasy
Fumio Takano たかの しお nominee

An imaginative novel that layers the images of music and machinery.

Music and machinery intersect throughout the story.

478 pages
musicmachineryfantasy
Sawamura Rin さわむら りん nominee

A fantasy novel that uses the feeling of the world’s edge as a guide to a young protagonist’s journey and growth.

Born at the edge of the world, they set out to find what it means to exist.

fantasygrowthjourney
石立ミン いしたて みん nominee

This work is recorded as a finalist for the 6th Japan Fantasy Novel Award. No standalone book edition has been confirmed.

An early fantasy piece preserved as a finalist entry.

Japan Fantasy Novel Awardfinalistmagazine publication