Japan Literary Grand Award にほんぶんがくたいしょう
Edition 8 (1976)
NovelsLiterary criticismPoetryPlays
Winners
2 peopleKazuo Dan's posthumous autobiographical novel. Family, wandering, love, and the impulse to write are fiercely intertwined, portraying the contradictions of the author's life in a burning prose style.
Wandering and family, desire and creation, keep burning within the metaphor of a house on fire.
480 pages
autobiographical fictionwanderingfamilypostwar literature
Yutaka Haniya's metaphysical novel, pursued over many decades. Centered on the Miwa brothers, its meditations on existence, revolution, death, and the universe stretch the very form of the novel.
Dialogues over the mystery of existence carry the novel into the depths of thought.
432 pages
metaphysical fictionpostwar literatureontologyrevolution