Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award よしかわえいじぶんがくしんじんしょう
Edition 31 (2010)
Winners
6 peopleA corporate novel about a young employee at a mid-sized construction company confronting bid-rigging and organizational logic. It depicts justice and reality wavering in the workplace.
Is working for the company the same as doing what is right?
A historical novel about Shibukawa Harumi, a go player and astronomer in the early Edo period, who attempts to create a Japanese calendar. Scholarship, politics, and love are joined in lively prose.
Correcting the calendar meant reading the sky and moving an age.
A mystery novel about a woman tracing a former classmate who killed her mother, depicting mother-daughter ties and provincial claustrophobia. A childhood promise echoes with the present crime.
A childhood promise led to an inescapable knot between mother and daughter.
A historical novel set around a Sengoku castle, portraying pride, maneuvering, and illusion among warriors. It observes the moments when vanity moves fate.
A fortress is guarded not only by stone walls but by pride and illusion.
A noir novel about a woman forced to work at a members-only diner for assassins. Violence, food, and desire intersect in excessive prose.
To survive, she had to smile at the assassins’ table.
A mystery centered on two sets of siblings, depicting a crime in the rain and a chain of guilt. Feelings for family and suspicion intertwine toward tragedy.
The falling rain exposes the guilt hidden inside the wish to protect family.