Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award よしかわえいじぶんがくしんじんしょう
Edition 43 (2022)
Winners
5 peopleA gentle yet searching collection of linked stories about people carrying families and secrets in their own small worlds.
Small worlds of daily life gradually connect with one another.
A collection of three stories set in a near future threatened by the infection known as Gekkō, exploring love and survival.
Even in a moon-ruled world, love remains.
A psychological mystery in which the lies and sins of six students are gradually exposed during the final round of job hunting.
Inside the sealed room of an interview, the students’ faces turn inside out.
A legal mystery in which the boundary between law and story keeps shifting, and past wounds intersect with present choices. Through its layered narration, it asks what it means to write as a novelist.
Writing becomes the way truth is unraveled.
A historical novel set in the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil, portraying conflict and division over the recognition of Japan's defeat. National feeling, inflated far from home, gradually turns into tragedy.
Belief, once heated, becomes a force that divides people.