Tokyo Nakano Literary Award
とうきょうなかのぶんがくしょう
Public novel literary award open to professionals and amateurs alike
- Established
- 2022
- Organizer
- Nakano City Tourism Association (General Incorporated Association), Tokyo Nakano Literary Award Executive Committee
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- Every two years
- Application Deadline
- around August
- Announcement Period
- around March
- Status
- Active
Description
The Tokyo Nakano Literary Award is a public novel literary award sponsored by the General Incorporated Association Nakano Ward Tourism Association and the Tokyo Nakano Literary Award Executive Committee. It accepts submissions from professionals and amateurs regardless of background, and considers stage, film, and anime adaptations of winning works in line with the characteristics of Nakano Ward. The 1st edition was held in 2022 under the former name Tokyo Nakano Monogatari 2022 Literary Award. It provides support for e-book publication and single-volume book publication of winning works.
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| First round | — | — | |
| Second round | — | — | |
| Final round | Kyoko Nakajima (writer), Tetsuo Shinohara (film director), Tadashi Onizuka (novelist/writer agent), Shoko Nakagawa (singer/talent, 1st round), Kenji Otsuki (rock musician/writer, 2nd round) | — | — |
Related Awards
- Japanese literary awards
Official Resources
https://nakano-story.jp/Past Winners
A couple undergoing fertility treatment live in Nakano amid its redevelopment. After learning that the neighborhood was once linked to Manchukuo by a telegraph cable, the narrator begins to wonder whether his surgery has connected him to a history that was thought to be severed.
A novel set in redeveloping Nakano, where an individual's body intersects with a severed history.
Lemon and Tangerine Rhapsody is a music novel by Miyuki Furuta. It follows Lemon, a violinist whose dream has faltered, and Mikan, a gifted girl, as they grow within the world of classical music.
Two protagonists find their way forward in the world of classical music.
Kidō, Resonant is a work of fiction by Izumi Mutsukawa.
Kidō, Resonant by Izumi Mutsukawa.
When Holding a Ten-Yen Coin is a story by Naoki Miyamoto set in Nakano. It received the Nakano Ward Prize at the second Tokyo Nakano Literary Award.
An award-winning story set in Nakano.
The grand-prize winner of the Tokyo Nakano Literary Award. It is a novel that traces the lingering scent of memory and relationships through the image of regret and flowers.
Regret blooms quietly, like a flower, after the fact.
A runner-up piece that uses the imagery of shrines and purification to search for fear and salvation. Set in a fantastical stage, it tries to touch what does not disappear.
It borrows the language of exorcism to touch what remains.
A runner-up piece that depicts the feeling of stepping into a new life alongside the warmth of relationships and the touch of the body.
A new life slowly begins to touch the body.
A novel in which a single perspective gradually loosens through the quiet hours of waiting for the first train. The stillness of the station becomes the story’s entrance.
At five in the morning, a story begins at a station where no one is yet waiting.
A novel that listens closely to small everyday sounds while drawing human presence and seasonal changes. Quiet listening carries the story forward.
The more closely you listen, the more faintly the world trembles.