Japanese Literary Awards

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Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう

Edition 6 (1960)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

2 people
小林勝 こばやし かつ award

A play set in a prison cell, where the closed routine of men with varied pasts begins to shift. Drawing on the author's imprisonment, it condenses postwar violence, memory, and responsibility.

Inside a closed cell, postwar wounds and responsibility find voice.

dramaprisonpostwar responsibility
Hisako Hayasaka はやさか ひさこ award

A play by Hisako Hayasaka whose title evokes exchanged love poems and reciprocal feeling. Written by a playwright involved in theatre magazines as an editor, it turns relational nuance and inner movement into stage language.

Exchanged feeling creates a quiet theatrical tension.

dramalovepsychology