Japanese Literary Awards

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Shosetsu Subaru Newcomer Award しょうせつすばるしんじんしょう

Edition 10 (1997)

NovelsNewcomer award

Winners

2 people
Hiroshi Ogiwara おぎはら ひろし award

Catch Me at Ororo Field is a humorous novel in which Ushiana Village, a remote community suffering from extreme depopulation, joins forces with an advertising agency on the verge of bankruptcy to revive the village.

A desperate village-revitalization campaign by an unlikely and underpowered team.

240 pages
regional revitalizationdepopulationadvertisingmediahumor
Tatsuya Kumagai くまがい たつや award

Uenkamuy no Tsume follows Yoshimoto, a wildlife photographer attacked by a brown bear in Hokkaido, who encounters a mysterious woman able to command bears.

After a bear attacks him, a photographer confronts the force of nature through an encounter with a woman who can command bears.

216 pages
brown bearsHokkaidonaturewildlife photographyhumans and the wild