Japanese Literary Awards

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Shibata Renzaburo Award しばたれんざぶろうしょう

Edition 17 (2004)

NovelContemporary fictionHistorical fictionEntertainment fiction

Winners

2 people
Natsuo Kirino きりの なつお award

A novel in which a writer, once the victim of a girlhood kidnapping, revisits the past through a manuscript left before her disappearance. Fiction and reality, perpetrator and victim, and the watched body overlap.

The memory of a sealed crime takes on another face inside a manuscript.

255 pages
crimememorykidnappingfiction and realityfemale body
Arimasa Osawa おおさわ ありまさ award

An adventure mystery set on an isolated island, where a closed community and hidden schemes intersect. Cut off from the outside world, desire and danger gradually take shape.

Beneath the island's quiet, schemes and danger lie in wait.

428 pages
adventure fictionislandmysteryconspiracysuspense