Japanese Literary Awards

← Back to Subaru Literary Award

Subaru Literary Award すばるぶんがくしょう

Edition 21 (1997)

Pure literatureNewcomers award

Winners

2 people
岩崎保子 いわさき やすこ award

A young woman who hopes to become a painter seeks independence but drifts from job to job and reaches an impasse in her art. Through dependency and shared life with others, she confronts the instability and reality of living as an adult.

A young aspiring painter, longing for independence, continues to waver at the threshold of adult life.

168 pages
independenceaspiring painteryoung womandependencytransition to adulthood
Hiroko Shimizu しみず ひろこ award

A female literature student follows traces of the novelist I, whom she has chosen as the subject of her graduation thesis, through Shimokitazawa. In a neighborhood where two private railways intersect, the relationships between writer and reader, writing and reading, slip past one another and form a linguistic labyrinth.

Along the path of a female student wandering Shimokitazawa, where the novelist I lives, rumor, fiction, and reality intersect.

132 pages
Shimokitazawawoman novelistgraduation thesiswriter and readerurban memorylinguistic labyrinth