The winning work is memorable for its crowd-noise texture and dance-like narration. As its title suggests, it foregrounds the energy of the onomatopoeic phrase "chin-don-jan."

A brisk and eccentric award-winning work built on the force of onomatopoeia.

A coming-of-age novel in which a transfer student faces a hollow home and a hostile classroom, and learns about loneliness and independence through a connection with a girl named Saki on a telephone dating line.

In the wasteland of a lonely boy’s heart, one voice opens a small path forward.

A short story published as a Subaru Literary Prize commendation, tracing the twenties of a young adult who tries to draw out a new shape of family by absorbing the signs hidden in everyday life.

From the texture of the everyday, the outline of an as-yet-unnamed family begins to emerge.