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第30回(2018年)

FictionNonfictionChildren and Young Adult

受賞者

3名
Linnea Axelsson りんねあ・あくせるそん Winner

Taking its title from a Northern Sami word for land or earth, this epic novel in verse follows two Sami families. Through voices crossing generations, it portrays memories fractured by borders, assimilation policy, schooling, and development, asking how lost land and culture may be reclaimed.

Voices dispossessed of land sing family and collective memory back from the margins of silence.

432ページ
Sami cultureIndigenous historylandassimilation policyverse novel
Magnus Vasterbro まぐぬす・ゔぇすてるぶろ Winner

This nonfiction work examines the Swedish famine of the late nineteenth century through climate, political decisions, poverty, and the history of migration. Combining individual testimony with social history, it traces how hunger helped shape modern Sweden.

The record of hunger reflects not a remote past but social choices that still reach into the present.

440ページ
famineSwedish historysocial historymigrationpolitical failure
Emma Adbåge えま・あどぼーげ Winner

This picture book centers on Gropen, a rough play place behind the school, where children's imagination meets adults' concern for safety. With humorous narration and images close to a child's voice, it explores the freedom of play, the negotiation of risk, and a world not entirely decided by adults.

The places adults dislike most can become secret kingdoms where children enlarge the world.

32ページ
picture bookplaychild's perspectiveimaginationadults and children