Okinawa Bookstore Grand Prize おきなわしょてんたいしょう
Edition 3 (2017)
Novel CategoryLocal Book CategoryLiterary Book CategoryChildren's Book CategoryPicture Book CategoryOkinawa Category
Winners
3 peopleA sharp, lightly told novel about a woman at ease in the standardized life of a convenience-store worker and the unsettling demands of social normality.
コンビニ人間 is a representative award-recognized work by 村田沙耶香.
160 pages
normalityworkalienation
A biographical nonfiction work on Sai Hiroyoshi of Okinawa Fisheries High School, looking beyond Koshien glory to the pressure and solitude behind it.
沖縄を変えた男 栽弘義 高校野球に捧げた生涯 is a representative award-recognized work by 松永多佳倫.
352 pages
high school baseballOkinawacoach
A picture book set in a smoke-covered town that has never seen the sky, where a boy's meeting with a man made of trash awakens a longing for the outside world.
えんとつ町のプペル is a representative award-recognized work by 西野亮廣.
10 pages
picture bookfriendshipsky