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Novel Grand Award のべるたいしょう

Edition 19 (1992)

Novel

Winners

3 people
Rin Yuuki grand prize

The Witch of the Night House is a girls' fantasy that revolves around a house clothed in night and a witch-like presence. Strangeness just beside ordinary life opens the way to a story of growth and choice told in a light style.

Entering the night house sets the magic hidden beside everyday life in motion.

243 pages
girls' fictionfantasywitches
沙山茴 honorable mention

The First Gymnopedie evokes Satie in its title and portrays delicate emotional shifts and youthful solitude. Scenes follow one another like a quiet melody, gradually bringing the characters' inner lives into view.

Like a quiet melody, youthful solitude slowly resonates.

youthmusicsolitude
原田紀 readers grand prize

Let's Meet on the Far Side of the Moon uses the far side of the moon as a romantic metaphor for encounter and longing in a place slightly removed from ordinary reality. Its clear girls' fiction tone carries the ache of a distance that feels almost reachable.

A promise on the far side of the moon gently lights an unreachable longing.

girls' fictionromancelonging