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Tsubota Joji Literary Award つぼたじょうじぶんがくしょう

Edition 9 (1993)

Literature

Winners

1 people
李相琴 り そうきん award

This autobiographical work follows a Korean girl born and raised in Japan as she grows through discrimination and uncertain belonging, guided by her mother's teaching and her own memories.

A girl with two halves of a homeland looks back on the past in her own words.

464 pages
Korean childhood in Japandiscrimination and prideautobiographical memory