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Shincho Entertainment Grand Award

しんちょうエンターテインメントたいしょう

A new-writer award for entertainment fiction organized by Shinchosha and Fuji Television, with results announced in Shosetsu Shincho. It ran from 2005 to 2012.

Entertainment novels
Established
2005
Organizer
Shinchosha, Fuji Television
Category
General Fiction and Popular Fiction
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Newcomer
Frequency
1 per year
Status
Ended

Description

Public submission award for new writers co-sponsored by Shinchosha and Fuji Television. Solicits long novels in the entertainment genre regardless of subgenre. Judging is conducted by one different writer each year. The winner receives prize money of 1 million yen, and the winning work is excerpted in 'Shosetsu Shincho' and published as a single volume. Up to the 2nd edition, it was held as the 'Shincho Entertainment Newcomer Award', and from the 3rd edition, it became the 'Shincho Entertainment Grand Award'.

Prize

Main Prize
Prize money of 1 million yen
Cash Prize
1,000,000 JPY
  • Excerpt publication in 'Shosetsu Shincho'
  • Publication as a single volume

Selection

Selection Process

Final selection
Judges One different writer each year

Related Awards

  • Shosetsu Shincho Long Novel Newcomer Award
  • This Mystery is Amazing! Grand Prize

Official Resources

https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/entertainment/1/index.html

Past Winners

Masaki Mitsumoto みつもと まさき award

紅葉街駅前自殺センター is an award-related work by 光本正記. It can be introduced through its subject, setting, and the emotional movement of its characters, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when a standalone book edition could be confirmed.

紅葉街駅前自殺センター offers a concise entry point into the work's setting and concerns.

249 pages
文学賞対象作人間ドラマ物語性
Akio Mizusawa みずさわ あきお award

ゴールデンラッキービートルの伝説 is a work by 水沢秋生. Available descriptions point to a readable structure and a clearly defined premise.

ゴールデンラッキービートルの伝説 offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.

240 pages
award-winning fictioncharacter dramasocial context
Akane Kanda かんだ あかね award

Kotone, who is painfully uncomfortable speaking in public, somehow finds herself onstage as the comic storyteller Kotori. Through awkward failures in performance and love, a word from her mentor pushes her to rediscover both her comedy and her way of living.

A woman who fears speaking finds her own voice on the stage.

251 pages
women performersstage lifementor and pupillove and setbacksself-renewal
Tatsuya Kojima こじま たつや award

Benham no Koma is Tatsuya Kojima's debut work, a story collection where fantasy, youth, and mystery overlap like a top whose colors change depending on how it is seen.

Like the colors of a spinning top, the stories show different faces depending on the angle of reading.

247 pages
fantasyyouthmysterystory collection
Mokako Nakajima なかじま もかこ award

A novel in which the remaining sisters trace the outline of their vanished eldest sister through fragments of memory. It depicts the distance between Tokyo and Kansai, family and dreams, in sweetly uneasy language.

A novel in which the remaining sisters trace the outline of their vanished eldest sister through fragments of memory.

186 pages
sistersdisappearancememorycity
Hiromi Iguchi いぐち ひろみ award

Satoru, brought by his mother to an old rural hermitage, meets a girl with mysterious powers and a sharp-tongued boy. As he encounters the customs and secrets of an isolated place, he passes an unforgettable summer in this coming-of-age mystery.

A summer in a rural hermitage opens the doorway to another world and to growing up.

186 pages
coming-of-age mysteryotherworldlinesssummerchildren on the threshold
Kunihiko Sakaki さかき くにひこ award

100万分の1の恋人 is a work by 榊 邦彦. It is presented here as an award-recognized work, with publication identifiers checked against book sources where available.

100万分の1の恋人, a work by 榊 邦彦.

award-recognized workcontemporary literature
Mariko Yoshino よしの まりこ award

Set in Yokohama, this school fantasy follows high-school girls drawn into a strange experience that begins with an unsettling incident on the Negishi Line.

横浜の街と学校生活のそばで、ありふれた毎日が少しだけ別の顔を見せる。

256 pages
school lifeYokohamafantasyadolescence