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Shogakukan Nonfiction Grand Prize しょうがくかんノンフィクションたいしょう

Edition 13 (2006)

NonfictionLiterary prize

Winners

3 people
江花優子 えばな ゆうこ excellence award

A nonfiction work following a couple's court battle after losing a baby born after a traffic accident during pregnancy. It confronts the difficult question of whether a fetus is legally a person, examining criminal law, damages, and social conflict around abortion.

From the death of a child who lived eleven hours, the book steps into the question of fetal rights.

258 pages
fetal rightstraffic accidentcriminal lawabortion debate
Chon Wolson たづき せん excellence award

A nonfiction work in which opera singer Chon Wolson traces her life and family history, portraying a life that crosses borders through song and a family shaped by the histories of Korea and Japan.

Song crosses the strait, awakening family memory and historical pain.

282 pages
nonfictionKorean residents in Japanclassical singingfamily history
山内喜美子 やまうち きみこ excellence award

A nonfiction account of the discovery and development of statins, centered on Akira Endo’s research life and the scientific and corporate struggles behind a medicine that changed cardiovascular treatment.

A search that began with a fungus led to a medicine that changed global healthcare.

258 pages
nonfictiondrug discoverystatinsscientist