Japanese Literary Awards

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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 44 (2023)

Literary award

Winners

5 people
Megumi Semitani せみたに めぐみ award

A historical novel that depicts marriage and performance through the perspective of a samurai daughter who marries an onnagata.

A reconsideration of what it means to be a wife, a woman, and oneself.

272 pages
historical fictionkabukimarriageEdo
Mio Adan あんだん みお nominee

A coming-of-age novel with spy elements, centered on a young man who infiltrates a music copyright investigation.

The deeper he goes into the music scene, the more his hidden wound begins to resonate.

312 pages
musicspycoming-of-agecontemporary fiction
Kyo Nagaura ながうら きょう nominee

A postwar picaresque novel that follows a female boss within a violent organization just after the war.

When a woman takes power, postwar history shows another face.

544 pages
postwar Japanyakuzapowerhistorical fiction
Yuu Nagira なぎら ゆう nominee

A long-resonating coming-of-age romance about two people who meet on a Setouchi island and grow together.

The time shared by two lonely people slowly changes their future.

352 pages
romancecoming-of-agefamilyregional Japan
Haruo Yuuki ゆうき はるお nominee

A full-fledged mystery set in an underground building deep in the mountains, focusing on choices under extreme conditions.

Among the nine, who can be allowed to die?

304 pages
mysterysurvivallocked-roomcontemporary fiction