Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう
Edition 36 (2021)
Winners
3 peopleA 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.
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.
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.