Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award よしかわえいじぶんがくしんじんしょう
Edition 42 (2021)
Winners
6 peopleA coming-of-age novel set in a world where a high-school-only matching app has become part of society, following the wavering choices of three teenagers.
Love, future plans, and a place to belong quietly shift within the app-driven system.
A coming-of-age novel in which students trapped by abusive parents and poverty support one another while still carrying the burden of not fully understanding each other.
A quiet story of resistance and solidarity that does not assume love as a given.
A short-story collection in which tiny frays in everyday life turn into cracks in relationships and guilt across each piece.
The stains you overlook quietly come back to your hands.
A family novel that spans the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and 2020, tracing the secrets of a mother, her son, and three generations.
Two Olympic eras reconnect family silence and the struggle to live.
A story in which Kiyosumi, a high school boy who loves sewing, tries to make a wedding dress for his sister and ends up questioning what is considered “normal” in family and gender.
With needle and thread, he resews the outline of family and the outline of himself.
A science-fiction novel set in a future society ruled by the supreme AI Titan, where the human beings asked to do a job are forced to reconsider what work means.
In a world where work has been lost, it asks what should be entrusted anew.