Bright Afternoon is an award-winning work by Ikuko Miyoshi for the Kansai Literature Newcomer Award. Beneath the calm of its title, it can be positioned as literary fiction about relationships and emotional shadows revealed in afternoon light.

A work that observes the shadows of the human heart in afternoon brightness.

Transmission of the Heart is an award-winning work by Efu Miyazawa for the Kansai Literature Newcomer Award. The title points to feelings that cannot be carried by words alone and to moments when one heart reaches another, suggesting literary fiction about subtle human relations.

A literary work about moments when the heart reaches beyond words.