Shosetsu Yasei Jidai Newcomer Award
Established in 2009, this open-submission newcomer literary award is sponsored by KADOKAWA Corporation. It was renamed from the Yasei Jidai Frontier Literary Award to the Shosetsu Yasei Jidai Newcomer Award with the 11th call for entries.
- Established
- 2009
- Organizer
- KADOKAWA Corporation
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around August–September
- Announcement Period
- around March–April
- Status
- Active
Description
Targets broad entertainment fiction regardless of genre, including romance, mystery, adventure, youth, historical fiction, period drama, fantasy, etc. The 1st to 5th awards include a prize of 3 million yen and commemorative items; from the 6th award onward, a prize of 1 million yen and commemorative items. Recruitment and announcements for the 1st award were in 'Yasei Jidai' magazine; from the 2nd award onward, in 'Shosetsu Yasei Jidai' magazine.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Commemorative items and cash prize (1st–5th: 3 million yen; 6th onward: 1 million yen)
- Cash Prize
- 1,000,000 JPY
- Commemorative items
Related Awards
- Yasei Jidai Newcomer Literary Award
- Kadokawa Entertainment Next Award
- List of Literary Awards
Official Resources
https://kadobun.jp/awards/yaseijidai/Past Winners
Sakutaro Yamada, a librarian at a Kyoto university library, struggles deeply with forming human relationships. When a student tells him to "just get married and change your name," he is struck by the idea and joins a marriage agency, insisting on finding a woman with an unusual surname. A unique and entertaining novel about an unconventional search for love.
A quirky and warm-hearted story of a librarian haunted by his own surname, who sets out to find a wife with an unusual family name.
Miyata, a 30-year-old who quit his job in a state of mental and physical exhaustion, hears from his only friend Hamano that factory contract work is a position where you have little contact with people and are not even considered human. He decides to work at the factory alongside Hamano. In circumstances that feel as though his humanity is being steadily eroded, Miyata gradually begins to seek something more human, all while secretly harboring a hidden burden. Winner of the 16th Shosetsu Yasei Jidai Newcomer Award.
Just live without making a fuss, that is enough.