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Yomiuri Literary Award よみうりぶんがくしょう

Edition 66 (2014)

NovelPlay/ScreenplayEssay/TravelogueCriticism/BiographyPoetry/HaikuResearch/Translation

Winners

2 people
Hiromi Kawakami かわかみ ひろみ award

水声 is an award-recognized 小説 by 川上弘美. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

水声 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

232 pages
award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict
Tomoyuki Hoshino ほしの ともゆき award

夜は終わらない is an award-recognized 小説 by 星野智幸. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

夜は終わらない looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

522 pages
award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict