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Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award おおやそういちノンフィクションしょう

Edition 22 (1991)

Nonfiction

Winners

2 people
Shoko Ieda いえだ しょうこ award

A nonfiction account of a year spent with an AIDS patient, confronting illness, prejudice, love, and death through personal relationships.

Beyond fear of illness, the book asks what it means to embrace another person.

292 pages
AIDSnonfictionprejudicelove and death
Makiko Ida いだ まきこ award

A nonfiction work following figures in women’s professional wrestling and reading the fever of the 1980s as a mirror of Japanese society.

The stories of girls gathered around the ring reflect the age itself.

350 pages
women’s professional wrestlingnonfictionthe 1980sbody