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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 43 (2022)

Literary award

Winners

5 people
Michi Ichihō いちほ みち award

A 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.

306 pages
short-story collectionfamilysecretslinked storieseveryday life
Masakuni Oda おだ まさひさと award

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.

384 pages
short storiesscience fictionfantasyinfectionlove
Akinari Asakura あさくら あきなり nominee

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.

368 pages
mysteryjob huntingpsychological battleyouthlies
Ritsuto Igarashi いがらし りつと nominee

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.

354 pages
legal mysterywriterstory structureyouthguilt and responsibility
Akira Hamanaka はまなか あきら nominee

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.

672 pages
Japanese immigrantsBrazilpostwar historydivisionhistorical fiction