The is a prestigious literary award in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The prize was founded in 1948 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "cultural nation". The winner is awarded one million Japanese yen

Japanese yen

The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro and the pound sterling...

 and an inkstone.

Award categories

For the first two years, awards were granted in four categories: novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s and plays

Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

, poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

, literary criticism, and scholarly studies. In 1950, novels and plays were split to form a total of five categories. This was further reorganized in 1966 to form six categories: novels, plays, essays and travel journals, criticism and biography, poetry, and academic studies and translation.

Fiction

Year	Winner	Winning entry
1949 1949 in literature The year 1949 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of Science Abstracts.*Bertrand Russell receives the Order of Merit....	Masuji Ibuse Masuji Ibuse was a Japanese author.-Life and work:Ibuse was born in 1898 to a landowning family in the village of Kamo which is now part of Fukuyama, Hiroshima.At the age of 19 he started studying at Waseda University in Tokyo...	Honjitsu Kyushin
1950 1950 in literature The year 1950 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Kazuo Shimada wins the "Mystery Writer Of Japan" award for his book Shakai-bu Kisha .*Jack Kerouac has his first novel published....	Kōji Uno Kōji Uno was a noted Japanese novelist and short story writer.Uno was born in Osaka to parents of Samurai origin. His grandfather was a police captain and his father a teacher. After his father's death when Uno was four, his family lost all their savings speculating in the stock market...	Omigawa (思ひ川, River of Thought)
1951 1951 in literature The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.*Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus....	Shōhei Ōoka	Nobi (Fires on the Plain Fires on the Plain Fires on the Plain is a Yomiuri Prize-winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951. It describes the experiences of a soldier in the routed Imperial Japanese Army on the Philippines in the final days of World War II.... )
1952 1952 in literature The year 1952, in literature involved some significant events and new literary publications.-Events:*J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.*November 25 - Agatha Christie's play...	Hiroyuki Agawa Hiroyuki Agawa is a Japanese author born on December 24, 1920, in Hiroshima, Japan. He is known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays.- Literary career :...	Haru no shiro (Citadel in Spring)
1953 1953 in literature The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway....	No award
1954 1954 in literature The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.*John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert....	Haruo Satō Haruo Sato is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Office CHK. He is originally from Tokyo.-Television animation:*Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple *Cyborg 009...	(Shōshi Mandara)
1955	Ton Satomi	Koigokoro

} || Aya Kōda

Aya Kōda

was a Japanese essayist and novelist. She was the second daughter of Meiji period novelist Kōda Rohan. Her daughter Aoki Tama and granddaughter Nao Aoki were also writers....

 || Kuroi suso
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|1956 || Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état...

 || Kinkakuji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959.-Plot introduction:...

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| || Mantarō Kubota || San no tori
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|1957 || Murō Saisei

Muro Saisei

was a famous poet and novelit in modern Japanese literature from Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.-Early life:His real name was Murō Terumichi. Born in 1889, he was given birth by his mother Haru, who was never formally married to his father, Kobata Yozaemon-kichidane, a low-ranked military commander...

 || Anzukko
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| || Yaeko Nogami || Meiro
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|1958 || ||
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|1959 || Hakuchō Masamune

Hakuchō Masamune

, a pseudonym of Tadao Masamune was a noted Japanese critic, novelist, and dramatist, and a leading member of the Japanese Naturalist school of literature....

 || Kotoshi no aki
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| || Shigeharu Nakano

Shigeharu Nakano

was a Japanese author and Communist Party politician.Nakano was born in Maruoka, now part of Sakai, Fukui. In 1914 he enrolled in middle school in Fukui, Fukui, and attended high school in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa and Kanazawa, Ishikawa. In 1924 he entered the German literature department of the...

 || Nashi no hana
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|1960 || Shigeru Tonomura

Shigeru Tonomura

was a Japanese author of I novels. Kanji of his real name was 外村 茂, but it was same reading as the pen name.Tonomura was born into a conservative merchant's family in Shiga Prefecture and raised by devout parents who believed in Pure Land Buddhism. After graduation from the University of Tokyo with...

 || Miotsukushi
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|1961 || ||
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|1962

1962 in literature

The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 7 - In an article in the New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist."...

|Kōbō Abe

Kobo Abe

, pseudonym of was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities....

|Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes

Woman in the Dunes

is a film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the novel of the same name by Kōbō Abe. The novel was published in 1962, and the film was released in 1964. Kōbō Abe also wrote the screenplay for the film version....

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|1963 || Yasushi Inoue

Yasushi Inoue

Yasushi Inoue was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels...

 || Fūtō
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|1964 || Akatsuki Kambayashi

Akatsuki Kambayashi

, pseudonym of Tokohiro Iwaki, was a noted Japanese author in the I Novel genre.Kambayashi was born in a village now part of Kuroshio in Kōchi Prefecture. In 1927 he received a graduate degree in English literate from the University of Tokyo and took a job with the Kaizo publishing company...

 || Shiroi yakatabune
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|1965

1965 in literature

The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron*J. G. Ballard - The Drought*Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury*John Brunner...

|Junzo Shono

Junzo Shono

was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book Purusaido Shokei...

|Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds)
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|1966 || Fumio Niwa

Fumio Niwa

was a Japanese novelist with a long list of works, the most famous in the West being his novel The Buddha Tree .-Career:...

 || Ichiro
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|1967 || Kiku Amino

Kiku Amino

was a noted Japanese author and translator of English and Russian literature.Amino was born in Azabu Mamiana-cho and raised in Akasaka, Tokyo, where her father was a well-to-do sadler. Her mother left when Amino was six, after which she had three step-mothers...

 || Ichigo-ichie
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|1968 || Taeko Kōno || Fui no koe (不意の声, A Sudden Voice)
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| || Kōsaku Takii

Kōsaku Takii

was a noted Japanese haiku poet, short story writer, and author of the celebrated I novel Mugen Hōyō.Takii was born in Takayama, Gifu where his father was a cabinetmaker. At age 13, he lost his mother and two brothers, and was forced to go work in the city's fish markets. In 1909, at age 15, he...

 || Yashu
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|1969 || Haruto Kō

Haruto Kō

was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels...

 || Ichijō no hikari
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| || Tan Onuma

Tan Onuma

was a noted Japanese author. Onuma received his degree in English literature from Waseda University in 1942, and in 1958 became a Waseda professor in the Faculty of Letters. He received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for Kaichūdokei and in 1989 was named a member of the Japan Art Academy.- References :*...

 || Kaichūdokei
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|1970 || Ken'ichi Yoshida || Gareki no naka
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|1971 || ||
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|1972 || Tatsuo Nagai || Cochabamba-yuki
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|1973 || Tsuneko Nakazato

Tsuneko Nakazato

was the pen-name of a novelist in Showa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.-Early life:Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls’ Higher School...

 || Utamakura
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| || Shōtarō Yasuoka

Shōtarō Yasuoka

is a Japanese writer.-Biography:Yasuoka was born in pre-war Japan in Kōchi, Kōchi, but as the son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, he spent most of his youth moving from one military post to another. In 1944, he was conscripted and served briefly overseas...

 || Hashire tomahōku
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|1974 || Yoshie Wada

Yoshie Wada

was a Japanese novelist and critic.Wada was born in Oshamambe, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Chuo University with a law degree. In addition to his novels in the naturalist tradition, he edited the diaries of Ichiyō Higuchi and Fumiko Hayashi...

 || Tsugiki no dai
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|1975 || Kazuo Dan

Kazuo Dan

was a noted Japanese novelist and poet.-Biography:Dan was born in Tanimura, Yamanashi Prefecture, to a family from Kyūshū. His father's work required frequent changes of residence, so Dan grew up with his grandparents in Yanagawa from age 6 onwards...

 || Kataku no hito
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| || Junnosuke Yoshiyuki || Kaban no nakami
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|1976 || Yoshinori Yagi

Yoshinori Yagi

was a noted Japanese author.Yagi was born in Muroran, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Waseda University in 1938 with a degree in French literature. In 1944 he became employed in the chemical industry in Manchuria. As a writer, he was a devotee of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Takeo Arishima, and received the...

 || Kazamatsuri
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|1977 || Toshio Shimao || Shi no toge
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|1978 || Noguchi Fujio

Noguchi Fujio

was the pen-name of a novelist in Shōwa period Japan, known primarily for his biographical works and works on literary history. His real name was Hirai Fujio.Noguchi was born in Tokyo, and studied at Keio University...

 || Kakute arikeri
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|1979 || Toshimasa Shimamura

Toshimasa Shimamura

was a noted Japanese author of fiction.Shimamura was born in Nagano Prefecture, and in 1931 graduated from college with an English degree. His first book was published in 1941, and in 1943 his book 暁雲 became the first of his several candidates for the Akutagawa Prize. He founded a company in 1955...

 || Myōkō no aki
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|1980 || ||
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|1981 || Hisashi Inoue || Kirikirijin
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| || Ryōtarō Shiba

Ryotaro Shiba

, born in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world....

 || Hitobito no ashioto
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|1982 || Kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburo Oe

is a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.Ōe was awarded...

 || Ame no ki (Rain Tree)
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|1983 || ||
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|1984

1984 in literature

The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is widely read....

|Akira Yoshimura

Akira Yoshimura

was a prize winning Japanese writer.He was the president of the Japanese writers' union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages...

|Hagoku (Prison Break)
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|1985

1985 in literature

The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire*Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale*Jean M. Auel - The Mammoth Hunters*Iain Banks - Walking on Glass...

|Takako Takahashi

Takako Takahashi

is a noted Japanese author.-Biography:Takahashi was born in Kyoto, as the only child of well-to-do parents, with the maiden name of Takako Okamoto. In 1954 she received her undergraduate degree from Kyoto University in French, with a senior thesis on Charles Baudelaire. Six months later she married...

|Ikari no ko (Child of Wrath)
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| || Hideo Takubo

Hideo Takubo

was a noted Japanese author. He studied French literature at Keio University, and won the 1969 Akutagawa Prize for Fukaikawa , 1985 Yomiuri Prize for Kaizu, and 1997 Noma Literary Prize for Kodamashu.- References :...

 || Kaizu
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|1986 || Yūko Tsushima || Yoru no hikari ni owarete
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|1987 || Tatsuhiko Shibusawa

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa

was the pen name of Shibusawa Tatsuo, a novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature active during the Shōwa period of Japan. Shibusawa wrote many short stories and novels based on French literature and Japanese classics...

 || Takaoka Shinnō kōkaiki
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|1988 || Takehiro Irokawa

Takehiro Irokawa

was a noted Japanese writer who published both serious literature and light fiction under a variety of pseudonyms including Asada Tetsuya and Budai Irokawa ....

 || Kyōjin nikki
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|1989 || Yūichi Takai || Yoru no ari
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| || Yoshikichi Furui || Kari ōjōden shibun
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|1990 || Toshio Moriuchi

Toshio Moriuchi

is a noted Japanese author. He was born in Osaka, graduated from Waseda University, and won the 1990 Yomiuri Prize for Hyōga ga kuru made ni.-References:...

 || Hyōga ga kuru made ni
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|1991 || Hiroshi Sakagami

Hiroshi Sakagami

is a noted Japanese author. As of 2009, he is also president of the Japan Writers' Association and director of Keio University Press.Sakagami was born in Tokyo. After moving several times during his school years , he entered Keio University where he studied formal logic...

 || Yasashii teihakuchi
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| || Sō Aono

So Aono

is a Japanese novelist, third son of the renowned literary critic Suekichi Aono, and winner of the 1979 Akutagawa Prize and the 1991 Yomiuri Prize....

 || Haha yo
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|1992 || Eisuke Nakazono

Eisuke Nakazono

, pen-name for Hideki Nakazono, was one of Japan's pioneer writers of spy fiction.Nakazono was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, spent from 1938-1946 in China, and died of pneumonia at a hospital in Kawasaki, Kanagawa...

 || Peking hanten kyūkan nite
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|1993 || ||
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|1994 || Momoko Ishii

Momoko Ishii

was a distinguished Japanese author and translator of children's books.Ishii was born in Urawa, Saitama, and graduated from the Japan Women's University with an English literature degree. While working as an editor at Iwanami Shoten Publishers, she decided to become a children's writer after...

 || Maboroshi no akai mi
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| || Senji Kuroi || Kāten kōru
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|1995 || Keizō Hino || Hikari
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| || Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others.He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature...

 || Nejimakidori kuronikuru (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997...

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|1997 || Ryū Murakami

Ryu Murakami

is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is colloquially referred to as the "Maradona of Japanese literature".-Biography:Born as Ryūnosuke Murakami in Sasebo, Nagasaki on February 19, 1952...

 || In za miso-sūpu (In the Miso Soup

In the Miso Soup

is a novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published in 1997 in Japanese, and in English in 2003.- Plot summary :Twenty year-old Kenji is a Japanese "nightlife" guide for foreigners — he navigates gaijin men around the sex clubs and hostess bars of Tokyo. On December 29 he receives a phone call from an...

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| || Nobuo Kojima || Uruwashiki hibi
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|1998 || Kunio Ogawa

Kunio Ogawa

was a Japanese novelist born in Shizuoka Prefecture.He was a graduate of the Japanese literature department at Tokyo University. In 1957, Ogawa wrote a book titled Aporon no shima after he had taken a trip to the Mediterranean. It was praised by the novelist Toshio Shimao, launching Ogawa's career...

 || Hashisshi gyangu (The Hashish Gang)
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| || Noboru Tsujihara

Noboru Tsujihara

is a prize-winning Japanese Novelist.- Prizes :* 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Mura no namae * 1999 Yomiuri Prize for Tobe kirin * 2000 Tanizaki Prize for Yudotei Enboku...

 || Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)
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|1999 || Yasutaka Tsutsui

Yasutaka Tsutsui

is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari...

 || Watashi no gurampa
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| || Taku Miki || Hadashi to kaigara
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|2000 || Naoyuki Ii

Naoyuki Ii

is a noted Japanese author and professor of creative writing at Tokai University's Shonan campus.A native of Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Ii graduated in 1978 from Keio University with a degree in history . His first novel, Kusakanmuri , was published in 1983, and received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers...

 || Nigotta gekiryū ni kakaru hashi (A Bridge over a Muddy Torrent)
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| || Amy Yamada

Amy Yamada

born February 8, 1959, is a popular but controversial contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial marriage, topics not typically discussed openly in Japanese society....

 || A2Z
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|2001 || Anna Ogino

Anna Ogino

is a Japanese author and professor of literature at Keio University.-Early Years:Ogino was born as Anna Gaillard in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, to a Japanese mother and father of European-American ancestry...

 || Horafuki-Anri no bōken
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|2002 || Minae Mizumura

Minae Mizumura

is a critically acclaimed novelist currently writing in the Japanese language. Educated in the US, she wrote her first published work in the English language, a scholarly essay on the literary criticism of Paul de Man. She is often portrayed as a Japanese novelist who questions the conventional...

 || Honkaku shōsetsu (A Real Novel)
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|2003 || Ogawa Yôko || Hakase no aishita sūshiki (The Housekeeper and the Professor)
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|2004 || Hisaki Matsuura

Hisaki Matsuura

is a noted Japanese professor, poet, and novelist.Matsuura was born in Tokyo. In 1981 he obtained his Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, and 1982 became an assistant professor in the French Department at the University of Tokyo where he is now a...

 || Hantō
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|2005 || Toshiyuki Horie

Toshiyuki Horie

is a Japanese author and translator.Horie was born in Gifu Prefecture, and studied at Waseda University. He teaches French Literature at Meiji University, where he is a critic and translator of authors including Michel Foucault, Hervé Guibert, Michel Rio, and Jacques Réda.-Prizes:* 1999 Mishima...

 || Kagan bōjitsushō
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| || Katsusuke Miyauchi

Katsusuke Miyauchi

is a noted Japanese author and peace activist.Miyauchi was born in Harbin to a family originating from Ibusuki. He graduated from Konan High School in Kagoshima Prefecture...

 || Shōshin
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|2007 || Rieko Matsuura

Rieko Matsuura

is a Japanese novelist and short story writer.- History :Matsuura was born in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture in Japan. Her middle school years were passed in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture....

 || Kenshin
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Drama

Year	Winner	Winning entry
1961	Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état...	Toka no Kiku
1974	Kōbō Abe Kobo Abe , pseudonym of was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities....	Midoriiro no sutokkingo (The green stockings)
1993	Tsutsumi Harue	Kanadehon Hamlet
1995	Ping Chong Ping Chong Ping Chong is an American contemporary theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. He was born in Toronto and raised in the Chinatown section of New York City...	Undesirable Elements
1999	Matsuda Masataka	Natsu no suna no ue (Over Summer Sands)
2003	Sakate Yôji	Yaneura (The Attic)
2004	Kara Jûrô	Doro ningyo (Mud Mermaid)

Poetry & haiku

Year	Winner	Winning entry
1966	Yuji Kinoshita	TREELIKE
1999	Nagata Kazuhiro	Aiba
	Mutsuo Takahashi Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent and prolific male poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan, with more than three dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, dozens books of essays, and several major literary prizes to his name. He is especially well known for his open writing about...
2003	Hasegawa Kai	Kyokû (Emptiness)
2004	Kuriki Kyôko	Natsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer)

Essay & Travelogue

Year	Winner	Winning entry
1988	Kazuo Mizuta	On the Pacific Age -- Promoting a Pacific University
1999	None awarded
2003	Mikirō Sasaki Mikiro Sasaki Mikirō Sasaki , also Mikio Sasaki, is a Japanese poet and travel author, winner of the 2003 Yomiuri Prize for travel essays. Sasaki won the award for his book Ajia kaidō kikō: umi wa toshi de aru . He has published more than a score of poetry collections and travel books...	Ajia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard)
2004	Wakashima Tadashi	Ranshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction)

Criticism & biography

Year	Winner	Winning entry
1999	Tanabe Seiko	Dôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori)
2003	Noguchi Takehiko	Bakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling)
2004	umano Mitsuyoshi	Yûtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature)

Scholarship and translation

Year	Winner	Winning entry
1999	Yûhi Takashi	Edo shiika-ron (Edo Period Poetry)
	(Translated by) Kudô Yukio	Burûno Shurutsu zenshû (The Collected Works of Bruno Shultz)
2003	Takematsu Yûichi	Igirisu kindaishi hô (Modern British Poetry)
2004	Tanizawa Eiichi	Bungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters)

External links

• Japanese Literary Awards at waseda.jp
• Mishima on Japan-101.com
• Takahashi, Mutsuo on glbtq.com
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• Shigehiko Hasumi's award