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Minami-Nippon Literary Award

みなみにっぽんぶんがくしょう

A literary award sponsored by Minami-Nippon Shimbun for fiction, criticism, and poetry by writers connected with Kagoshima and nearby areas.

NovelCriticismPoetry
Established
1972
Organizer
Minami-Nippon Shimbun
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Open
Frequency
1 per year
Application Deadline
around January
Announcement Period
around March
Status
Active

Description

Established in 1973, this literary award is hosted by Minami-Nippon Shimbun. It targets residents or natives of Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture, etc., selecting the most outstanding works in novels, criticism, and poetry, with every fifth edition solicited and awarded as the Minami-Nippon Literary Grand Prize.

Prize

Main Prize
The grand prize winner is awarded 1 million yen.
Cash Prize
1,000,000 JPY

Selection

Selection Process

41st-44th
Judges Sasaki Kanrō, Sasamoto Ryōhei, Matayoshi Eiki
45th-50th
Judges Matayoshi Eiki, Machida Kō, Sankaku Mizuki
51st-
Judges Aorai Yūichi, Machida Kō, Sankaku Mizuki

Related Awards

  • Regional literary awards

Official Resources

https://373news.com/lifestyle/culture/bungaku/

Past Winners

徳常喜 とくつね き award

A fiction winner of the Minami-Nippon Literary Award. It turns its attention to life in wartime and traces the tension between being hurt and refusing to break others.

A novel that keeps its attention on lives in wartime.

fictionwartimelifewoundscare
奥山紗英 おくやま さえ award

A sequence of fifteen poems that follows the feeling of becoming fragments, set against workplace scenes and the body being assembled and reassembled. Pain and humor coexist in the space between breaking apart and being picked up.

Someone gathers up the fragments of me.

poetry sequencebodyworkplacefragmentationrepair
馬場広大 ばば こうだい award

A novel introduced as a Minami-Nippon Literary Award winner. It traces the atmosphere of a place and human relationships while quietly picking up the distortions and sudden dissonances of everyday life.

It follows small dislocations in everyday life with quiet narration.

fictioneveryday lifeplacerelationshipsdisquiet
栫伸太郎 award

The poetry division winner of the Minami-Nippon Literary Award. It connects fragments such as wind, cats, puddles, and stairs to bring out the moment when a landscape becomes a poem.

Wind, cats, and puddles become a path through the poem.

poetrylandscapewindcatssequence
山田里奈 award

The award-winning work 'Hana to Hasami' in the fiction/literary criticism category; no standalone book edition was confirmed.

The South Japan Literary Award-winning work 'Hana to Hasami'; no standalone bibliographic record was confirmed.

literary awardshort fictionnovelnot book-published
西原裕美 award

A sequence of 16 poems centered on the feelings that surfaced when the author moved to Kagoshima. The anxiety and anticipation of living in a changing place rise gently through quiet language.

In a new place, feeling gradually gains shape.

poetryrelocationKagoshimamemoryeveryday life
需水 award

穏やかな日々 is an award-recognized work by 需水. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award

ライトゲージ is an award-recognized work by うるし山千尋. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award
江史人 award

The 2019 fiction and literary criticism category winner of the South Japan Literary Award. No standalone book publication was confirmed, and available public information is limited mainly to the award record.

The fiction-category winner of the 2019 South Japan Literary Award.

South Japan Literary Awardregional literaturefictionaward-winning work

A short story centered on two women raised on Amami Oshima. When Naka from a poor family and Ito from a wealthy family meet again, local folklore frames the emotions of those who discriminate and those who are discriminated against.

Amami folklore casts a shadow across the memories of two women reunited.

fictionAmami Oshimafolklorediscriminationreunion

A group of poems written from the desire to encourage the author’s mother during illness. It recalls kitchens and meals, tracing warm time with the mother through language that includes local resonance.

From memories of the table, a voice rises toward the mother.

poetrymotherillnessmealsmemory
鳥海美幸 award

窪み is an award-recognized work by 鳥海美幸. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award
東郷久子 award

『いろいろ』ほか is an award-recognized work by 東郷久子. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award

エルニーニョ by 類沙いくよ is an award-recognized work. The entry focuses on the published work, its author, and the context in which it was selected.

A concise profile of 類沙いくよ's エルニーニョ through its award record.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
藤由朝 award

一握の砂、そしてわたし by 藤由朝 is an award-recognized work. The entry focuses on the published work, its author, and the context in which it was selected.

A concise profile of 藤由朝's 一握の砂、そしてわたし through its award record.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
野上夏美 literary grand prize

独楽 is a work by 野上夏美 associated with the 南日本文学賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

独楽 by 野上夏美 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

award-recognized workpersonal choicessociety and memory
谷口元子 award

A historical novel that uses the image of a temple gate to quietly portray faith, place, and human resolve.

山門 is a work by 谷口元子 whose profile can be outlined through award records and bibliographic checks.

134 pages
faith and placeaward-recognized workbibliographic check

A work recorded for the South Japan Literary Award, suggesting emotions and events beginning to stir beneath the surface.

蠢動 is a work by 小平田史穂 whose profile can be outlined through award records and bibliographic checks.

uneasy stirringsaward-recognized workbibliographic check
藤田和子 award

巣立ちの家 is a 受賞作 by 藤田和子 recognized in the relevant 2013 literary award cycle. The entry summarizes the work as a prize-listed title based on the available bibliographic record.

Bibliographic and descriptive notes for 巣立ちの家, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

award-winning work受賞作2013

決壊 is a 受賞作 by 桐木平十詩子 recognized in the relevant 2013 literary award cycle. The entry summarizes the work as a prize-listed title based on the available bibliographic record.

Bibliographic and descriptive notes for 決壊, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

49 pages
award-winning work受賞作2013
さかがみえま さかがみえま award

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

ザベスの襟 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships
永坂理重 ながさか りしげ award

オールターン is a work by 長坂律茂. Award records show that the premise and conception were central to its recognition.

オールターン offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.

award entryuncollected workoriginal premise
田中秀人 たなか ひでと award

セイタカアワダチソウ is a work by 田中英人. Award records show that the premise and conception were central to its recognition.

セイタカアワダチソウ offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.

award entryuncollected workoriginal premise
永田祥二 ながた しょうじ literary grand prize

"Kitsune no Gyoretsu" is a novel by Shoji Nagata that won the grand prize of the South Japan Literary Award. Preserved in the record of a Kagoshima regional literary award, its title suggests a fox procession and a story with local and uncanny resonance.

The folkloric image of a fox procession gives the work a sense of place, memory, and strangeness.

regional literaturefolkloreuncanny atmosphereKagoshima
岡村知鶴子 おかむら ちづこ award

A novel rooted in the memory of southern Kyushu. Centered on a slope, it depicts local life, family, and the weight of the past.

The memory of a place emerges through people moving up and down a slope.

213 pages
regional literatureKagoshimafamilymemory of place
島田いつき しまだ いつき award

プライド, by 島田いつき, is an award-recognized work. It follows the movement of its characters’ minds and surrounding world, drawing out the conflict and change behind its concise title.

プライド, by 島田いつき, is an award-recognized work.

charactersconflictchange
おぎぜんた おぎ ぜんた award

The Africa アフリカ, by おぎぜんた, is an award-recognized work. It follows the movement of its characters’ minds and surrounding world, drawing out the conflict and change behind its concise title.

The Africa アフリカ, by おぎぜんた, is an award-recognized work.

charactersconflictchange
Kiyoko Nomiyama のみやま きよこ award

Known as a South Japan Literary Award work, this story can be read as an attempt to capture unseen emotion and the atmosphere of place, tracing subtle shifts in the distance between people.

The presence of what cannot be seen quietly links human feeling with the memory of place.

regional literaturehuman relationshipsunseen emotion
Urushiyama Chihiro うるしやま ちひろ award

This group of works, including Hanwarai no kishitachi, was recognized as a set of stories. Through irony and a faintly comic tone, it approaches human weakness and unease within local everyday life.

Behind the aftertaste of a half-smile, human weakness and everyday strangeness come into view.

short storieslocal everyday lifeirony and humor
田ノ上淑子 たのうえ よしこ award

隣人の影 is a work by 田ノ上淑子. It was selected for the 南日本文学賞 in 2006.

A work by 田ノ上淑子 recognized by the 南日本文学賞.

南日本文学賞受賞
Misumi Mizuki みすみ みづき award

カナシヤル is a work by 三角みづ紀. It was selected for the 南日本文学賞 in 2006.

A work by 三角みづ紀 recognized by the 南日本文学賞.

南日本文学賞受賞
池田純子 いけだ じゅんこ literary grand prize

家族や身体、記憶の違和感を想起させる題名を持つ文学作品。閉じ込められたもの、保存されたものへの感覚を通じて、生の不安と関係の歪みを描く。

保存されたままの痛みが、静かな生活の奥で息をしている。

文学身体記憶家族
伊福満代 いふく みつよ award

Confirmed as a South Japan Literary Award work, but no standalone book publication or identifier could be verified. Public information about the content is limited.

夏の果て distills the core of 伊福満代's work into a story or line of thought that reaches the reader clearly.

regional literaturesummershort fictionunverified publication
陳躍 ちん やく award

Chen Yao's Homeland won the South Japan Literary Award. As the title suggests, it centers on feelings for land and family that persist after departure, portraying memory and belonging in a life of movement.

The farther one moves away, the more sharply homeland begins to take shape in the mind.

homelandmovementmemoryregional literature
宇宿一成 うすき かずなり award

With a long span of time in the background, this novel looks at memories inscribed in place and the brevity of human life. The vast sense of time in the title quietly illuminates individual lives and feelings of loss.

Before the span of a thousand years, human memory and the voice of the land overlap.

timeplacememoryloss
吉松美津子 よしまつ みつこ award

A poetry collection that looks at the weight and solitude of women's lives through seascapes and bodily sensation. Its quiet language carries pain and prayer rooted in place and memory.

石女の海 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 吉松美津子.

101 pages
poetryseawomenmemoryplace
谷口雄三 たにぐち ゆうぞう literary grand prize

ブリジストン is a work by 谷口雄三. 南日本文学の文脈にある地域性の強い小説。土地に根ざした暮らしと、産業や人間関係の記憶を描きます。

ブリジストン centers on 地域文学 and presents its characters through a distinctive literary frame.

地域文学暮らし記憶
鳥居佐智子 とりい さちこ award

たとえば空をうたう日 is an award-winning work. This South Japan Literary Award winner portrays human lives against the texture of place and everyday experience.

たとえば空をうたう日 presents its award-recognized themes and narrative voice with clarity.

award-winning workliterary prizehuman portrayal
福迫光英 ふくさこ みつひで award

水豹 is a work by 福迫光英. It was recognized by the south japan literary award in 1998.

土師照子 はじ てるこ award

もう月も行く by 土師照子 is a work associated with the Minami-Nippon Literary Award. It builds its world around the impression suggested by the title, following human choices and the atmosphere of its time with a lingering aftertaste.

もう月も行く quietly conveys the core appeal that has kept it read as an award-recognized work.

lifememorytime
茂山忠茂 もやま ただしげ award

不安定な車輪 is a literary work by 茂山忠茂. Recognized by the award, it centers on the world suggested by its title and follows shifts in character, memory, and atmosphere.

不安定な車輪 reflects 茂山忠茂's voice and the literary concerns surrounding its award year.

relationshipsmemorythe mood of an era
出水沢藍子 いずみざわ あいこ award

グンセイフの夜 is a literary work by 出水沢藍子. Recognized by the award, it centers on the world suggested by its title and follows shifts in character, memory, and atmosphere.

グンセイフの夜 reflects 出水沢藍子's voice and the literary concerns surrounding its award year.

relationshipsmemorythe mood of an era
石峰意佐雄 いしみね いさお award

A work recognized by the South Japan Literary Award that depicts voices and memories resonating among people rooted in a region. Its title suggests how a private event can send ripples through others.

A work recognized by the South Japan Literary Award that depicts voices and memories resonating among people rooted in a region.

regional literaturememoryrelationshipsresonance
小澤聖子 おざわ せいこ award

A work that uses winter as a backdrop for the movement of feeling and gesture, almost like a dance. It places quiet emotional shifts within the texture of local life.

A work that uses winter as a backdrop for the movement of feeling and gesture, almost like a dance.

winterregional literatureemotiondaily life
松元肇子 まつもと はじめこ award

A novel about a summer lived with the distance of an outsider, where unease with place and relationships stands out against seasonal brightness.

異邦人の夏 uses 小説 as an entry point into human emotion.

小説異邦人孤独
No winner
南海良治 なんかい りょうじ award

A South Japan Literary Award winner. Its title, meaning a return of the rainy season, suggests fiction that links local life with the damp, wavering states of the heart.

The feel of returning rain casts light on hesitation and lingering attachment.

regional literatureseasonal atmosphereshades of daily lifehuman relationships
藤井令一 ふじい れいいち award

Mishima Kyosokyoku is a novel by Reiichi Fujii that received the South Japan Literary Award. Set on an island, it can be read as regional fiction in which communal memory, faith, and private unease become entangled.

The island's time and its people's memories overlap like an unsettling piece of music.

islandcommunitymemoryregional fiction
久井稔子 ひさい としこ award

島尾敏雄の旅行記を対象にした評論.南島や旅の経験をめぐる島尾文学のまなざしを読み解き, 作品に刻まれた移動と記憶の意味を考察する.

島尾敏雄の旅の記述から, 土地と記憶をめぐる文学の核心を読み解く.

文学評論島尾敏雄旅行記
福元正實 ふくもと まさみ award

七面鳥の森 is a fiction collection by 福元正實. It is recorded as a 受賞 work, and its title and genre show one facet of the author's literary concerns.

七面鳥の森 by 福元正實 is a fiction collection remembered through its award history.

357 pages
fiction collectionaward-recognized workJapanese literature
元野影一 もとの えいいち award

塔の消えた日 is a poetry collection by 元野影一. It is recorded as a 受賞 work, and its title and genre show one facet of the author's literary concerns.

塔の消えた日 by 元野影一 is a poetry collection remembered through its award history.

87 pages
poetry collectionaward-recognized workJapanese literature
Masako Aiboshi あいぼし まさこ award

下関花嫁 is a 文学作品 by 相星雅子. Recognized by the award, it centers on the scene or relationship suggested by its title and draws the reader into memory, place, and the atmosphere of its time.

As an award-recognized work, 下関花嫁 leaves a sense of people and their era beneath its quiet title.

award-recognized work文学作品memoryperiod atmosphere
Osamu Takaoka たかおか おさむ award

二十項目の分類のためのエスキス・ほか is a 文学作品 by 高岡修. Recognized by the award, it centers on the scene or relationship suggested by its title and draws the reader into memory, place, and the atmosphere of its time.

As an award-recognized work, 二十項目の分類のためのエスキス・ほか leaves a sense of people and their era beneath its quiet title.

award-recognized work文学作品memoryperiod atmosphere
森田一正 もりた かずまさ award

ホムンクルス is a literary work by 森田一正, following personal choices and the atmosphere of its time with a quiet aftertaste.

ホムンクルス is a literary work by 森田一正, following personal choices and the atmosphere of its time with a quiet aftertaste.

literaturecharactertimeaftertaste
No winner
阿久根星斗 あくね せいと award

A fiction work by Seito Akune. Recognized by the South Japan Literary Award, it can be placed as literature grounded in regional history and local memory.

A novel that layers human lives with the memory of southern Kyushu.

regional literaturesouthern Kyushuhistorymemory
村永美和子 むらなが みわこ award

A poetry collection by Miwako Muranaga. Centered on images of islands and waves, it links a coastal sense of place with inward personal feeling.

A poetry collection tracing memories and feelings beyond islands and waves.

83 pages
poetry collectionislandsseasense of place
Hiroshi Shima しま ひろし award

海の砂 is a 小説 by 島尾敏雄. This payload records the award-winning work with the bibliographic information that could be confirmed.

海の砂 represents award-recognized work by 島尾敏雄.

award-winning work小説
竹元隆洋 たけもと たかひろ award

海賊船 is a 小説 by 竹本隆弘. This payload records the award-winning work with the bibliographic information that could be confirmed.

海賊船 represents award-recognized work by 竹本隆弘.

award-winning work小説
奈良迫ミチ ならさこ みち award

パリの朝 is a prize-winning work shaped by its subject matter and the author's point of view. Through the people, places, events, or memories suggested by the title, it conveys the atmosphere of its time and the tensions of human relationships.

パリの朝 draws out human lives and the shape of its time through the implications carried by its title.

award-winning workhuman relationshipsperiod atmospherememorysociety
立石富男 たていし とみお award

A work that finds the weight of a life in the back of someone walking away. Within a regional sense of everyday life, unspoken feelings and memories quietly surface.

うしろ姿 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 人生.

regional literaturememorylife
Michiko Takeda たけだ みちこ award

赤つめ草の冠 is a work by 武田美智子 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

赤つめ草の冠 by 武田美智子 remains associated with its award recognition.

award-winning work1980s literatureauthorial themes
三原実敏 award

A work of fiction by Sanetoshi Mihara. Its title, Toan, suggests taking shelter in temporary ease, and it is recorded as a fiction winner of the South Japan Literary Award.

Sanetoshi Mihara's South Japan Literary Award-winning work, bearing a title that suggests temporary ease.

regional literaturefictioneaseSouth Japan Literary Award
進一男 award

This poetry collection by Kazuo Susumu, a poet from Amami, layers island memory with the sensations of daily life. It does not treat the everyday as merely peaceful, but looks into the strangeness within familiar life through local history, the sound of dialect, and the presence of people placed in vulnerable positions.

The eye fixed on daily life reaches into island memory and the sound of dialect.

Amamimodern poetrydaily lifeisland memorydialectestrangement
沖百百枝 おき ももえ award

Mizuko Jizo is a story whose title carries memories of prayer and loss. Through the image of a jizo statue for unborn or lost children, it can be read as a work that looks at private pain, family silence, and emotions left in a place.

From prayers entrusted to a jizo statue arise a hard-to-speak loss and the memory of a place.

mizuko memorial riteslossfamilymemory of placeregional literature
岡田哲也 おかだ てつや award

This poetry collection by Tetsuya Okada sets the climate of southern Kyushu, with its sea and mountains, behind poems that catch light and shadow, local memory, and the feel of daily life. As its title suggests, placing brightness and shade side by side, it quietly resonates with feelings rooted in place.

Sunlight over the sea and shadows from the mountains illuminate the memories of people living in the south.

southern Kyushupoetry collectionsea and mountainsmemory of placelight and shade
No winner
風見治 かざみ おさむ award

スフィンクスに is an award-winning work by 風見治. It follows personal memory, place, and the pressure of everyday life through a voice shaped by its period.

A compact work in which 風見治 traces how memory and daily life shape a person's sense of belonging.

memoryeveryday lifeselfhood
杢田瑛二 もくた えいじ award

A novel by Eiji Mokuta that examines the shape of fatherhood, bringing up emotions left within family memory and local life.

To trace the outline of a father is also to touch the silences within a family.

fatherhoodfamilymemoryregional literature
原井カズエ はらい かずえ award

The Boy and the Birdcage can be read as a work that links a boy's viewpoint with the image of a closed cage, suggesting a longing for freedom and the suffocation of adolescence. As a regional literary award work, it belongs to fiction emerging from local literary activity.

Through the image of a birdcage, it depicts adolescent confinement and a longing for freedom.

boyhoodfreedomconfinementregional literature
No winner
Miho Shimao しまお みほ award

海辺の生と死 is a literary work by 島尾ミホ. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

海辺の生と死 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

239 pages
memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
浜田喜代子 はまだ きよこ award

藻の花 is a literary work by 浜田喜代子. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

藻の花 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
Shuichiro Kono こうの しゅういちろう award

石を背負う父 is a literary work by 河野修一郎. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

石を背負う父 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

295 pages
memory and placehuman feelingsocial context

冷える is a 作品 by 中渡瀬正晃. It reflects the literary and publishing climate around its award year, with the person, place, or incident suggested by the title forming the center of the work.

冷える conveys the force of its subject and the author's perspective as an award-winning work.

award-winning work作品Showa-era literatureauthorial perspective