Kaien Newcomer Literary Award かいえんしんじんぶんがくしょう
Edition 5 (1986)
Literary award
Winners
2 people
Dachima Inaka
award
A newcomer-prize work centered on the dining table as a closed everyday space, observing the balance of family and relationships. Within a precise composition, it places unease and silence from daily life.
Around the square table, the tensions of human relationships come into view.
familydining tableeveryday unease
Reira
award
A newcomer-prize work with a striking title that tries to grasp love through the scientific metaphor of the molecular level. It portrays intimacy not only as emotion but also as a sensation close to body and matter.
It reconsiders the feeling of love through the closeness of body and matter.
lovebodily sensationcontemporary fiction