Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award
かどかわはるきしょうせつしょう
An open-submission novel award sponsored by Kadokawa Haruki Office Co., Ltd. for unpublished long-form entertainment fiction.
- Established
- 1999
- Organizer
- Kadokawa Haruki Office Co., Ltd.
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around November
- Announcement Period
- around May–June
- Status
- Active
Description
The Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award is a literary award with open submissions sponsored by Kadokawa Haruki Office Co., Ltd., soliciting unpublished long-form entertainment novels regardless of genre. Winning works receive 1 million yen in prize money and a commemorative item in addition to royalties. It was suspended after the publication of the second award-winning work in 2001 but resumed in 2010. Entries are limited to 550 pages or fewer equivalent to 400-character manuscript paper.
Prize
- Main Prize
- 1 million yen prize money
- Cash Prize
- 1,000,000 JPY
- Commemorative item
Official Resources
http://www.kadokawaharuki.co.jp/Past Winners
In 7th-century Gaochang, a small but vital nation at the crossroads of the Silk Road, First Prince Qu Zhisheng believes the kingdoms of the Western Regions must unite and support each other to survive, rather than submit to either the powerful Tang dynasty or the mighty Western Turks. But his father the king chooses an alliance with the Western Turks, and the fate of the small kingdom hangs by a thread. A passionate historical adventure following a proud prince and his brothers.
The fate of this small nation, like a tiny boat adrift in a sea of sand, rests upon the shoulders of its princes.
Makoto Inaba, an oil painting student on leave from an art university in Kyoto, joins a team tasked with reproducing and restoring an ancient set of fusuma paintings created by Yukika Hirano, a female painter from the Edo period. Of the original twelve panels depicting birds and flowers, only nine survive. Together with two graduate students specializing in art restoration, Makoto works to reconstruct the missing three panels through research and imagination. This moving novel, winner of the 16th Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, delicately captures both the anguish and joy of creative work.
To replicate not just the image, but the emotion the original evokes — that was the extraordinarily demanding art of restorative reproduction.
In Edo during the sixth year of Kansei, the story is told through the maid Okoma as she witnesses events surrounding the mysterious artist Sharaku and Tsutaya Juzaburo. A historical novel that follows Sharaku’s identity and the era’s excitement, winning the Haruki Kadokawa Novel Prize.
Edo is stirred by actor portraits unlike any ever seen before.