Yomiuri Literary Award よみうりぶんがくしょう
Edition 37 (1985)
NovelPlay/ScreenplayEssay/TravelogueCriticism/BiographyPoetry/HaikuResearch/Translation
Winners
2 peopleA novel that explores guilt, faith, and solitude through a figure living with anger. It draws out the intensity hidden in the depths of the spirit through a restrained prose style.
怒りの子 illuminates human memory and feeling through the symbolic force carried by its title.
小説怒り信仰孤独
A novel that uses the image of a nautical chart to trace human movement and memory. Beneath its quiet observation lies an urgent search for direction in life.
海図 illuminates human memory and feeling through the symbolic force carried by its title.
小説海記憶人生の航路