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Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award よしかわえいじぶんがくしんじんしょう

Edition 40 (2019)

Literary award

Winners

5 people
Takeshi Shiota しおた たけし award

A linked story collection crossing newspapers, television, magazines, and online media, depicting how misinformation and fabrication unsettle people and society. Against an age when information can become both weapon and poison, it portrays journalistic ethics, silence, entertainment, and the distance from power.

From the ripples left after false reporting, the novel reveals malice and responsibility in an information society.

275 pages
journalismmisreportingfabricationmedia ethicssocial fiction
Taiyo Fujii ふじい たいよう award

A linked story collection in which software developers confront contemporary technologies and political issues, including ad blockers, drones, social networks, and bitcoin. Armed with practical IT knowledge and trust in their colleagues, the characters try to protect the freedom and future of the internet.

Small-scale technology and trust among colleagues become a force for defending freedom in the wider world.

288 pages
information technologyinternet freedomnear futuredeveloperslinked stories
Go Katsuhiro ご かつひろ nominee

A mystery that begins with a matryoshka doll buried beside skeletal remains. Like nested dolls, the layers of the case accumulate, gradually exposing blood ties, violence, and obsession. The novel links a grotesque opening with emotions rooted deep in human beings.

The deeper the story moves into its nested doll, the closer the case comes to primal human love and hatred.

432 pages
grotesque mysteryfamilyblood tiesviolencelove and hatred
Ayano Takeda たけだ あやの nominee

Akane Kawasaki jumps from the roof of her high school, and a video of the moment spreads online. With no suicide note, classmates' testimonies accumulate around bullying, suicide, the person who filmed it, and the other figure in the footage. This school mystery portrays not the sparkle of youth but the desires and anger inside the classroom.

Testimonies around a girl's death reflect the distortions of the classroom as a small society.

396 pages
school mysteryschoolsocial mediabullyingtestimony
Miaki Sugaru みあき すがる nominee

A romance about a young man implanted with memories of an imaginary adolescence who meets a childhood friend who should not exist. The story of memory, loss, lies, and first love unfolds through the paradoxical sense of a love that had already begun before the two met.

A love encountered inside fabricated memories beautifully reverses itself while carrying the weight of real loss.

320 pages
memorylossloveyouthgentle lies