Random House Kodansha Newcomer Award
らんだむはうすこうだんしゃしんじんしょう
A newcomer literary award sponsored by Random House Kodansha. Winning works are published in Japan and the United States.
- Established
- 2007
- Organizer
- Random House Kodansha
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
An open call newcomer literary award hosted by Random House Kodansha (later Takeda Random House Japan). Winning works were promised publication not only in Japan but also English translation and publication in the United States, and were published in B6 format.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Domestic publication of the winning work and English translation publication
- Promise of English translation publication
- Publication in B6 format
Official Resources
https://web.archive.org/web/20100209023405/http://www.randomhouse-kodansha.co.jp/Past Winners
マジックランタンサーカス is an award-winning work by 一村征吾. Published as a standalone book, it follows its characters' choices and the atmosphere surrounding them through the subject and voice recognized by the prize.
マジックランタンサーカス is a work by 一村征吾 recognized by the ランダムハウス講談社新人賞.
表参道 EXIT A4 is a 2008 award-winning work by Momoe Melon. Centered on the subject suggested by its title, it can be introduced as a literary work that follows shifts in character and scene.
表参道 EXIT A4 is a work by Momoe Melon recognized by the ランダムハウス講談社新人賞.
A novel about Hiro, a Japanese woman living in Vietnam, and her relationship with Yun, a Vietnamese woman. It traces body, desire, and the unease of living away from home.
In tropical air, the distance between two women begins to shift.
A novel wrapped in mythic images of sex and the body. In a secretive atmosphere, desire, bodily sensation, beauty, and pain are rendered in prose with the texture of a prose poem.
The myth of androgyny turns into a story of body and desire.
A three-colored panda with a brown patch on its forehead suddenly arrives at the apartment of the idle Hamura. The irritable panda moves in and gradually reveals an inner darkness.
A grumpy three-colored panda sends strange ripples through everyday life.