North Japan Literary Award
きたにっぽんぶんがくしょう
Short story literary award sponsored by North Japan Newspaper, aimed at discovering new writers through open submissions.
- Established
- 1966
- Organizer
- North Japan Newspaper
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around August
- Announcement Period
- around January
- Status
- Active
Description
Established in 1966. Aimed at discovering local new writers; submissions began mainly from Toyama Prefecture, North Japan Newspaper's home prefecture, but now attracts attention nationwide as a gateway for short stories. Judges: Rounds 1-2: Fumio Niwa, Rounds 3-24: Yasushi Inoue, Rounds 25 onward: Teru Miyamoto. Winning works are published in North Japan Newspaper on New Year's Day.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Winning work is published in North Japan Newspaper
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selection | Rounds 1-2: Fumio Niwa, Rounds 3-24: Yasushi Inoue, Rounds 25 onward: Teru Miyamoto | Unknown | Published in North Japan Newspaper on New Year's Day |
Related Awards
- List of literary awards
- Regional literary awards
Official Resources
https://webun.jp/pub/hensyu/bungaku/Past Winners
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かんぐれ, read through its award history and bibliographic record.
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最後の姿 is an award-recognized work by 飛田一歩. Searches of public and commercial bibliographic sources did not confirm a standalone book edition of the awarded work.
最後の姿, read through its award history and bibliographic record.
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お弔い is a work by 岩波三樹緒. Recognized by the 北日本文学賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.
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ティティカカの向こう側 is a work by 長山志信 that was recognized by the 北日本文学賞 in 1997. It is read as a published literary work.
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Full Moon is a story grounded in the sensibility of northern Japan, portraying distance between people and the waxing and waning of memory. Quiet scenes of daily life accumulate as the image of the moon resonates with what remains in the characters' hearts.
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夏の花 by 中沢由佳里 is a prize-recognized work. 夏の光と花のイメージを手がかりに、若い感受性と地方の生活感を描く小説。季節の鮮やかさの中に、登場人物の揺れや痛みが置かれている。
夏の花 shows the central qualities of 中沢由佳里.
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残照 is an important work for reading 織田卓之's expression in the context of 北日本文学賞.
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額縁 is a work by 渡部智子 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.
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“Rojin no Asa” is a short story whose title places the atmosphere of morning within the time of old age. Included in a collection of North Japan Literary Award winning works, it can be read as a piece that draws the shades of an elderly person's perception and daily life from quiet ordinary scenes.
Morning light in old age illuminates the silence within everyday life.
A short story recognized by the North Japan Literary Award. The title's sense of time that refuses to move suggests a quiet work attentive to memory and emotions left within ordinary life.
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靴 is a 文学作品 work by 田口佳子, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.
An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 田口佳子's perspective.
Set against memories of a cold northern place and human relationships, this work depicts attempts to cross emotional distance. The title suggests a fragile bridge that both separates and connects people.
In a frozen landscape, a narrow path between people is sought.
A short work that uses bodily movement and unspoken emotion to depict the distance between people. As a prize-winning literary submission, it delicately handles silence and miscommunication in everyday life.
パントマイム reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 夏目千代.
Memory of a Baby Carriage is confirmed as a winning work of the North Japan Literary Award. Centered on childhood memory and family feeling suggested by its title, it can be placed as a work through which a regional literary prize brought individual time into view.
It brings the texture of early memory into view within the context of a regional literary prize.
軍医大尉 is a literary work by 小島久枝. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.
軍医大尉 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.
越の老函人 is a literary work by 息長大次郎. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.
越の老函人 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.
十七歳の日に is a 作品 by 小柳美智子. It reflects the literary and publishing climate around its award year, with the person, place, or incident suggested by the title forming the center of the work.
十七歳の日に conveys the force of its subject and the author's perspective as an award-winning work.
がらんどう by 佐伯葉子 was recognized by the 北日本文学賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.
がらんどう places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.
闘鶏 is a work by 神部龍平 recognized by the north-japan-literary-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.
闘鶏, a work recognized by the north-japan-literary-award.
大鹿 by 山村睦 was recognized by the 北日本文学賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.
大鹿 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.
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空転 is a work in which a novel whose title suggests stalled lives and relationships that fail to move forward.
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A novel that uses the image of two fires to portray conflicting feelings and the heat of ordinary life. Recognized by a northern Japanese literary prize, it is rooted in regional reality.
二つの火 is a work in which a novel that uses the image of two fires to portray conflicting feelings and the heat of ordinary life.