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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 42 (2011)

Nonfiction

Winners

2 people
Yusuke Kakuhata かくはた ゆいすけ award

An exploration narrative about an attempt to traverse the uncharted section of Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge. Through terrain, bodily strain, fear, and judgment, it conveys not only the exhilaration of adventure but also the texture of danger and solitude.

空白の五マイル is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 角幡唯介's distinct perspective.

312 pages
explorationTibetnonfiction
Kokubun Hiromu こくぶん ひらく award

A work of documentary writing about the Yanomami people in the Amazon interior. Maintaining the tension of an outsider approaching another culture, it reconsiders life, death, family, and community.

ヤノマミ is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 国分拓's distinct perspective.

315 pages
ethnographyAmazonviews of life