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 peopleCatch 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
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