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Kita-ku Uchida Yasuo Mystery Literary Award きたく うちだやすおミステリーぶんがくしょう

Edition 21 (2023)

Mystery novelsShort stories

Winners

3 people
諸星額 もろほし がく grand prize

A mystery that follows a case while quietly digging into the distances created by people's silences.

Within the silence, the outline appears little by little.

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鮎川知央 あゆかわ ともひろ ward mayor award

A mystery that uses the feeling of losing one's destination to connect a character's memories with present unease.

The farther it moves forward, the more another landscape appears.

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積本絵馬 つみもと えま jury special prize

A mystery that builds unease around mistaken judgment and oversight through the relationships between a case and its characters.

A shift in judgment becomes depth in the story itself.

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