World Literary Awards

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Edition 21 (2025) Winner

Feuerdörfer: Wehrmachtsverbrechen in Belarus – Zeitzeugen berichten

Thomas Weiler とーます わいらー
Award: Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse)
Category
Research, Translation, and Scholarship
Target
Professional
Selection method
Recommendation

ベラルーシでのヴェアマハト（ドイツ軍）による戦争犯罪をめぐる証言と記録を編んだ資料の翻訳・編訳。現地の生存者や目撃者の声、史料を通じて地域社会が被った被害と記憶の継承、戦争責任の問題を生々しく伝え、歴史的事実の可視化と記憶の継続を促す。

Themes 戦争犯罪証言ベラルーシ史記憶とトラウマ史料編纂
Edition 49 (2025) Winner

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Natascha Gangl なたーしゃ・がんぐる
Award: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 58 (2025) Winner

受賞業績（詩作）

Daniela Seel だにえら ぜーる
Award: Kleist Prize
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection

ゼールは言語実験と抒情性を融合させた詩作で知られる。詩集や朗読活動を通じて音とイメージの関係を探り、現代詩の新たな可能性を示した点が受賞理由となった。

Themes 現代詩言語実験抒情
Edition 79 (2025) Winner

L'anniversario

Andrea Bajani あんどれあ・ばやーに
Award: Strega Prize (Premio Strega)
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Target
Professional
Selection method
Recommendation

十年前に両親と絶縁した語り手が、暴力的な父と沈黙する母のいる家庭を振り返りながら、自分がどう自由になったのかを語る。家族という制度の暴力を、冷ややかで克明な一人称で掘り下げる長編。

Themes 家族父権家庭内暴力記憶解放
128 pages
Edition 15 (2025) Winner

Khoyum Nongdam Cow

A. K. Jiten えーけー じてん
Award: Yuva Puraskar for Meitei
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Target
Professional
Selection method
Recommendation

民話や神話の要素を取り入れた叙事詩的長編。土地と家畜、世代の連なりを象徴的に描きつつ、現代社会の変容や環境・倫理の問題を問いかけるスケールの大きな物語。

Themes 叙事詩神話土地と生活環境家族
Edition 15 (2025) Winner

Village Weavers

Myriam J. A. Chancy みりあむ じぇーえー ちゃんしー
Award: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call

『Village Weavers』はハイチとディアスポラを背景に、家族の物語と伝承、暴力と回復を描く小説。複数の視点を通して共同体と個人の交差する軌跡を描き、歴史の継承と再生を問いかける。

Themes ディアスポラ家族歴史と記憶回復
Edition 14 (2025) Winner

Descend

Chanel Sutherland しゃねる さざーらんど
Award: Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Category
General Fiction and Popular Fiction
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call
Edition 14 (2025) Winner

An Eye and a Leg

Faria Basher ふぁりあ ばしゃー
Award: Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Category
General Fiction and Popular Fiction
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call
Edition 14 (2025) Winner

Mothers Not Appearing in Search

Joshua Lubwama じょしゅあ るぶわま
Award: Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Category
General Fiction and Popular Fiction
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call
Edition 14 (2025) Winner

Crab Sticks and Lobster Rolls

Kathleen Ridgwell きゃすりーん りどぐうぇる
Award: Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Category
General Fiction and Popular Fiction
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call
Edition 14 (2025) Winner

Margot's Run

Subraj Singh すぶらじ しん
Award: Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Category
General Fiction and Popular Fiction
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call
Edition 20 (2025) Winner

White Noise

Don DeLillo どん・でりーろ
Award: American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal — Fiction (Novel, Short Story)
Category
General Arts and Media Arts
Target
Open
Selection method
Vote

消費社会とメディアの洪水がもたらす不安と死への恐怖をブラックユーモアを交えて描く。家族の日常や情報過多の環境がどのように個人の自我と恐怖を形成するかを鋭く描写する。

Themes メディアと消費文化死への恐怖現代社会の疎外
Edition 90 (2025) Winner

Colored Television

Danzy Senna だんじー・せな
Award: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Professional
Selection method
Recommendation

人種、メディア、家族の記憶が交錯する物語。個人史と文化的表象が交わる地点から、アメリカにおける見られ方とアイデンティティを精緻に描き出す作品。

Themes 人種家族メディアアイデンティティ
Edition 90 (2025) Winner

The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots

Jonathan D S Schroeder じょなさん・でぃー・えす・しゅろーだー
Award: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Professional
Selection method
Recommendation

（書名に基づく記述）米国の奴隷制とその支配構造を検証する歴史的・調査的なノンフィクション。権力と人権侵害の関係を明らかにすることを目指す内容とされる。

Themes 奴隷制アメリカ史政治
Edition 90 (2025) Winner

Feeding Ghosts

Tessa Hulls てっさ・はるず
Award: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Professional
Selection method
Recommendation

家族の歴史や移民経験、食文化を手がかりに過去と向き合う回想録。個人的な記憶と伝承がどのように世代をつなぐかを描き出す。

Themes 回想録移民食文化記憶
Edition 78 (2025) Winner

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal きゃすりーん どぅばる
Award: Bancroft Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection

北米の先住民諸国を千年にわたる長期の視点から俯瞰し、外来勢力との相互作用、政治的・文化的変容、抵抗と適応の諸相を明らかにする。先住民主体の視点から大陸史を再構築する総合史的著作。

Themes 先住民史北米史植民地主義と抵抗長期史
Edition 54 (2025) Winner

受賞対象：生涯業績

Arthur Sze あーさー・すぃー
Award: Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Open
Selection method
Open call

自然と科学、東洋思想を横断する詩作により、静謐で多層的な詩的空間を提示。細部への観察と精緻なイメージ連鎖を通じて普遍的な存在の問いを提示する作品群が評価された。

Themes 自然科学と詩東洋思想イメージ主義多文化的対話
Edition 0 (2025) Winner

グランドマスター賞（業績に対する表彰）

John Sandford
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Category
Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Picture Books
Target
Newcomer
Selection method
Open call / Recommendation
Edition 0 (2025) Winner

グランドマスター賞（業績に対する表彰）

Laura Lippman
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Category
Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Picture Books
Target
Newcomer
Selection method
Open call / Recommendation
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Victim

Andrew Boryga
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

There Is No Ethan

Anna Akbari
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York

Guy Trebay
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough

Ian Frazier
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Everything and Nothing at Once

Joél Leon
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

Muriel Leung
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car

Nicole Gelinas
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough

Prithi Kanakamedala
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection
Edition 43 (2025) Nominee

Entitlement

Rumaan Alam
Award: Gotham Book Prize
Category
Nonfiction and Documentary Literature
Target
Professional
Selection method
Selection