Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award
しょうせつすいりしんじんしょう
A Futabasha-sponsored open newcomer award for short entertainment fiction centered on mystery in a broad sense.
- Established
- 1979
- Organizer
- Futabasha
- Category
- Genre Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around November
- Announcement Period
- around August
- Status
- Active
Description
Public submission newcomer literary award sponsored by Futabasha since 1979, soliciting short mystery fiction. Winning works are announced and published in the August issue of Shosetsu Suiri, and winners receive 1 million yen as the main prize and additional prize.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Main prize and additional prize
- Cash Prize
- 1,000,000 JPY
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st - 3rd | Jirō Ikushima, Eisuke Kaidō, Shinji Fujiwara | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 4th - 6th | Jirō Ikushima, Eisuke Kaidō, Yō Sano, Shinji Fujiwara | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 7th - 11th | Jirō Ikushima, Eisuke Kaidō, Yō Sano | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 12th - 14th | Azusa Katsume, Kōji Kuratazawa, Shinpei Tokiwa | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 15th - 17th | Kenzo Kitakata, Katsuhiko Takahashi, Toru Miyoshi | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 18th - 20th | Jirō Ikushima, Zaichō Ōsawa, Shizuko Natsuki | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 21st - 23rd | Jirō Asada, Kiyoshi Kasai, Setsuko Shinoda | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 24th - 26th | Asa Nonami, Mangetsu Hanamura, Seiichi Morimura | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 27th - 29th | Ira Ishida, Shimako Iwai, Keita Tokakaji | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 30th - 32nd | Yukito Ayatsuji, Arisugawa Arisugawa, Yuri Mitsuhara | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 33rd - 35th | Hiroshi Ogihara, Fumie Kondō, Ryōhei Sasamoto | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 36th - 38th | Mari Koike, Yūichi Shinbo, Tokurō Nukui | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 39th - 41st | Minato Shūkawa, Shino Sakuragi, Akihiro Higashiyama | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 42nd - 44th | Takahiro Ōkura, Hiroki Nagaoka, Kanae Minato | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 45th - 47th | Riku Enna, Shichiri Nakayama, Take Yakumaru | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
| 48th - | Hiroshi Ashizawa, Ryōei Tsukimura, Yūsuke Miyauchi | — | Announced and published in the August issue of "Shosetsu Suiri" |
Related Awards
- Mystery fiction awards
Official Resources
https://www.futabasha.co.jp/news/suiri_awardPast Winners
Shirane, a police inspector known as "the police within the police," is watching the final match of the prefectural police judo tournament when something unprecedented occurs: his colleague Miyagawa deliberately fractures the arm of their fellow colleague Sudo. Caught between personal bonds with his colleagues and his duty as an inspector, Shirane pursues the truth behind this bizarre act. A hard-boiled police procedural that illuminates the inner workings of the police organization.
A series of gruesome murders plague the streets of Edo: three nighthawks found dead with their organs removed. Kabayashi Tappei, a Dutch medicine physician at the Koishikawa Yojosho, learns that his senior colleague is under suspicion. Then, his own surgical scalpel is discovered inside the latest victim's body. To clear his name, Tappei and his mentor set out to uncover the true culprit. A period mystery short story set against the unique backdrop of Dutch medicine and Edo-era society.
A Dutch medicine physician risks his own innocence to unravel a series of murders lurking in the shadows of Edo.
A linked mystery series in which an Inari deity investigates the true intent behind people’s strange wishes.
The true meaning behind “Please let me be killed” becomes the key.
A middle-aged office worker visits a gallery to see the paintings of a childhood friend, an artist who died young. New facts about his subordinate's origins, the disappearance of an older woman he once loved, and a secret space left by the painter lead him through the gaps between past and present in this short mystery.
A dead painter's work reconnects forgotten relationships and secrets to the present.
Using gait analysis to identify people, the novel follows Megumi Nose as she hunts the man who killed her mother and violated her.
A technology that identifies people by the way they walk drives a story of revenge.
Winner of the 43th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 42th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 41th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 40th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 38th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 37th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 36th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 34th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 33th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 32th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 31th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 30th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 29th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 28th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 27th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 26th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 25th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 24th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 23th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 22th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Winner of the 21th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award.
A Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award-winning work.
Takahiro Okura's Tool & Stall is an everyday mystery featuring 23-year-old Shu Shirato, who is short of money yet unable to refuse a friend in need. When a friend suspected of murder comes to him for help, Shirato is drawn into a series of close-to-home mysteries.
Unable to turn away a request for help, Shu Shirato once again finds himself in the middle of an unexpected case.
"Taikutsu Kaishō Item" is a short mystery by Tai Kasumi. Published in Shosetsu Suiri in 1997, it was later included in an award-winners anthology and in Kasumi's collection Sakaku Toshi.
A short mystery by Tai Kasumi that was published in Shosetsu Suiri.
Centered on a woman whose life begins to collapse after her husband's death, this suspense collection explores the unease hidden inside familiar relationships. Across its six stories, the book delivers the creeping horror of ordinary life slowly turning askew and endings that keep readers off balance.
A quiet everyday life is quietly turned upside down by a single death.
A mystery short story built around doubled identities and psychological misalignment, where the truth keeps slipping out of view.
The face looks the same, but something is off.
A debut short-story collection containing a range of mystery-flavored stories.
Various mysteries sway beneath a quiet sea.
A mystery short story that pursues the truth through records left on sand. On a fragile footing, evidence and memory quietly tremble.
What remains on sand slips through the fingers most easily.
On a rainy night, a man arrives carrying a gift. As his intention remains unclear, tension mounts between the visitor and the person receiving him in this short mystery by Asagi Madara.
The visitor who emerges from the rain signals the beginning of an unexpected event.
Takashi Chino's Yoru no Michiyuki is a historical detective story set around Nihonbashi in Edo. After a draper's maid is found strangled in Yagenbori, the constable Ichizo pursues the truth through the lives of ordinary townspeople.
As Ichizo investigates a killing in Yagenbori, the circumstances of the people living in Edo come into view.
A short mystery by Takashi Soma. It appeared in the August 1988 issue of Shosetsu Suiri after winning the 10th Shosetsu Suiri Newcomer Award, and was later included in the mystery collection Koyoi wa Shitai to.
A short story first published as a 1988 newcomer-award winner and later collected in a mystery anthology.
A coming-of-age novel that foregrounds the rush and danger of young people caught up in speed, cars, and motorcycles. It is a paperback collection centered on the award-winning title story and related short pieces.
With the beat of the engine, youthful impulses race through the city.
This work was confirmed as a prize entry, but no standalone book edition could be verified.
No book edition could be confirmed via Amazon JP, NDL, or the publisher official site.
A story included in the linked short story collection “Mureboshi Namidairo,” which portrays love, death, and travel in a southern-island setting.
As one story in the collection, it traces the atmosphere of love and death.
"埋められた傷痕" is an early work published in connection with the 小説推理新人賞. No standalone book edition or ISBN could be confirmed.
An early work published in connection with the 小説推理新人賞.
An early award-winning piece by 渡部雅文, with no confirmed standalone book edition.
An early award-winning piece by 渡部雅文.
Set around a swing left in the garden and the youths who gather there, the story follows an old man whose loneliness and anger harden into quiet murderous intent. It is a tense suspense piece in which the pain of loss distorts an ordinary domestic landscape.
A garden of memories slowly turns into a scene of murder.
Ko Sakuma, a professional investigator of missing persons, takes a case to find a woman from whom his client parted eleven years earlier. Moving through the corners of the city and tracing people's pasts into their present, this is an early youthful hard-boiled story by Arimasa Osawa.
Carrying the city's memories with him, Ko Sakuma follows the trail of a disappearance.