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

Edition 46 (2024)

Pure literatureNovels

Winners

1 people
Kohei Toyonaga とよなが こうへい award

Chichi nu Haiya, Unma nu Hai follows Okinawa's wartime and postwar history through the voices of fourteen people from different times and positions. With the rhythms of Okinawan language and the saying that life is precious as its guide, it traces voices from a place layered with violence, memory, and time.

Okinawan language and fourteen voices excavate layers of memory spanning the war.

160 pages
Battle of Okinawapostwar historyOkinawan languagememorylife is precious