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Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award むらさきしきぶんがくしょう

Edition 29 (2019)

Winners

1 people
Kayoko Yamasaki やまざき かよこ award

A work of literary reportage in which the author, living in Serbia, records memories of war and displacement through food. Recipes and meals become a way to recover individual lives within Balkan history.

Memories of food bring back the voices of people who lived through war.

320 pages
Serbiawar memoryfood cultureoral history