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Yomiuri Literary Award よみうりぶんがくしょう

Edition 60 (2008)

NovelPlay/ScreenplayEssay/TravelogueCriticism/BiographyPoetry/HaikuResearch/Translation

Winners

6 people
So Kurokawa くろかわ はじめ award

A story in a collection about women and men, looking at loneliness and the hint of change within ordinary life. Its title suggests watching the world from a seabird’s distance.

A story in a collection about women and men, looking at loneliness and the hint of change within ordinary life.

452 pages
relationshipslonelinessdaily lifechange
Kundo Koyama こやま くんどう award

A screenplay centered on the work of an encoffiner, looking at death and the emotions of those left behind. Within quiet ritual, marriage, family, and professional dignity come into view.

A screenplay centered on the work of an encoffiner, looking at death and the emotions of those left behind.

208 pages
deathencoffiningfamilyritual
Kazuko Shiraishi しらいし かずこ award

A reflective critical work portraying poetic scenes and poets, mixing experience with criticism. It conveys the atmosphere of writing, reading, and living as a poet.

A reflective critical work portraying poetic scenes and poets, mixing experience with criticism.

459 pages
poetrypoetscriticismrecollection
Atsushi Okada おかだ おんじ award

A critical work that connects psychoanalysis and art history through Freud’s travels and artistic encounters in Italy. Travel, antiquity, and visual experience intersect with modern ways of reading the mind.

A critical work that connects psychoanalysis and art history through Freud’s travels and artistic encounters in Italy.

316 pages
FreudItalypsychoanalysisart
Norio Tokita ときた のりお award

A tanka collection named for a mountain in Hokkaido, inscribing the scale of place and the feel of daily life. Harsh nature and human activity resonate in concise language.

A tanka collection named for a mountain in Hokkaido, inscribing the scale of place and the feel of daily life.

tankaHokkaidonaturedaily life
Shuhei Hosokawa ほそかわ しゅうへい award

A study of Japanese Brazilians’ feelings, words, and performing arts, showing how culture is made through immigrant experience. It carefully uncovers memory and expression carried across distance.

A study of Japanese Brazilians’ feelings, words, and performing arts, showing how culture is made through immigrant experience.

491 pages
migrationJapanese Braziliansperforming artsmemory