Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award かわばたやすなりぶんがくしょう
Edition 48 (2024)
Short story
Winners
1 peopleWatashi no Hihyo (My Criticism) is a short story in which a writerly "I" reconsiders the self and the making of fiction through the act of criticism. It unsettles the boundary between invention and autobiography while following what language can do around the idea of "I."
A short story that reconsiders who the "I" in fiction is through an "I" writing criticism.
176 pages
autobiographical fictionself-referential fictionliterary criticismfiction and reality