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Kaiko Takeshi Nonfiction Award かいこうたけしノンフィクションしょう

Edition 16 (2018)

NonfictionLiterary award

Winners

1 people
Ario Kawauchi かわうち ありお award

A nonfiction work following the friendship and practice of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang and Tadashige Shiga, who keeps planting cherry trees in Iwaki, Fukushima. It layers post-disaster land, art, memory, and border-crossing action to depict hope through two unconventional lives.

Ninety-nine thousand cherry trees and contemporary art come together in post-disaster Fukushima in an almost miraculous way.

372 pages
nonfictioncontemporary artFukushimaearthquake disasterfriendship