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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 16 (2009)

NonfictionLiterary prize

Winners

2 people
Kaori Kawai かわい かおり grand prize

A nonfiction account of young winemakers who helped open a path for Japanese wine. It follows their attempt to inherit Usuke Asai’s ideas and make wine rooted in Japanese soil, from grape growing to vinification.

A record of young makers who challenged what many thought impossible in Japanese wine.

256 pages
nonfictionJapanese winewinemakerschallenge
須藤みか すどう みか grand prize

A nonfiction work focused on embryologists, specialists who handle fertilized eggs in fertility treatment. It follows the work, conflicts, and future of professionals who support the beginning of life behind the scenes of medicine.

The book shines light on embryologists, the specialists who support life at its earliest stage.

208 pages
nonfictionreproductive medicineembryologistsbioethics