Moon-Viewing Night Museum: "Shin Iyohara Special Talk"

About this event

An event where you can enjoy the planetarium and astronomical museum at night during the moon-viewing season. At this year's Night Museum, a lecture by the author Shin Iyohara will be held. Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1972, Shin Iyohara graduated from Kobe University's Faculty of Science, majored in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Graduate School of Science of the University of Tokyo, and completed the doctoral course. After working at a university, he made his debut in 2010 by winning the Seishi Yokomizo Mystery Award with "Odaiba Island Baby". In 2019, he won the Jiro Nitta Literature Prize, Shizuoka Bookstore Award, and Miraiya Novel Grand Prize with "Three Kilometers to the Moon". "Sorawataru Kyoshitsu" (Classes Crossing the Sky), published in 2023, was chosen as an assigned book for the 70th National Youth Book Report Contest (High School Division) and gained acclaim when adapted into an NHK drama starting in October 2024. In 2025, he won the Naoki Prize with "Ai wo Tsugu Umi" (The Sea That Inherits Indigo). Recent works include "Suiu no Hito" and "Cosmic Girl - Sorawataru Kyoshitsu". Advance application is required for this event.

Venue

Akashi Municipal Planetarium

Akashi Municipal Planetarium 16F, 2-6 Hitomaru-cho, Akashi, Hyogo 673-0877