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Noma Literary Newcomer Award のまぶんげいしんじんしょう

Edition 32 (2010)

Pure literatureNovels

Winners

2 people
EnJoe Toh えんじょう とう award

Uuushitan is an experimental novel by Toh EnJoe. Narration, annotation, and digression intertwine to create an intellectual maze around a story that may not exist, unsettling the act of reading itself.

At the border of whether a story exists at all, the act of reading is put to the test.

144 pages
experimental fictionannotationfictionalitylanguagemaze
Tomoka Shibasaki しばさき ともか award

Netemo Sametemo is a novel in which memories of love and present life waver around two men with the same face. Feelings for someone who cannot be forgotten overlap with a relationship in the present, creating a quiet tension.

Between two men with the same face, memory and the present continue to waver.

269 pages
lovememorydoubledaily lifechoice