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Novel Grand Award のべるたいしょう

Edition 25 (1995)

Novel

Winners

3 people
Akiko Kayama grand prize

A collection of short fiction about three girls living in different eras: early Showa-era rural Tohoku, an English country town, and contemporary high school life. Its title story won the Novel Grand Award.

The volume brings together stories of three girls living in different eras.

320 pages
girlscoming of agestories across eras
いたみありあ honorable mention

Yoi Ko no Uta is a Japanese work of fiction by Aria Itami. Publicly available records confirm the title and author, but no reliable source describing the story has been identified.

Yoi Ko no Uta, by Aria Itami.

64 pages
Japanese fictionlimited public information
Mari Fujiwara readers grand prize

A historical romance set in Japan's Sengoku period, centred on Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime. It boldly reimagines these historical figures and follows the roles they must assume and the course of their relationship.

A story that revisits the relationship between Nobunaga and Nōhime against the backdrop of the Sengoku era.

325 pages
Sengoku periodOda NobunagaNōhimehistorical romancereimagined historical figures