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Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう

Edition 36 (2021)

PoetryTankaHaiku

Winners

3 people
Takanori Morimoto もりもと たかのり award

A constructed poetry collection that lets memory and the presence of ghosts surface through fragmented, defamiliarized language.

An experimental collection crystallized from five years of writing.

96 pages
structuredefamiliarized languagememoryghostsfamily
Machi Tawara たわら まち award

Tawara Machi's sixth tanka collection, shaped by childcare, relocation, and the disrupted everyday of the pandemic.

A book that weaves life changes into short poems without losing lightness.

184 pages
childcareregional relocationthe pandemiceveryday lifesocial perspective
Shizuo Miyasaka みやさか しずお award

Retitled and published from the 62nd Kodansha Children's Literature Newcomer Award's excellent-work entry 'Katori to Madoromu Ishi no Umi,' this book follows a sleeping-illness mystery and the adventure of two girls in Edinburgh.

In nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Katori and Rizu move toward the truth behind the sleeping illness.

240 pages
children's literatureadventure fantasymysteryEdinburghtwo girls