The Yomiuri Prize for Literature (読売文学賞, Yomiuri Bungaku Shō) is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone.
Yomiuri Prize for Literature | |
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読売文学賞 (Yomiuri Bungaku Shō) | |
Awarded for | Best new literary works |
Date | 1949 |
Country | Japan |
Presented by | Yomiuri Shimbun |
Reward(s) | ¥2,000,000, inkstone |
First awarded | 1949 |
Last awarded | 2018 |
Website | info |
Award categories
For the first two years, awards were granted in four categories: novels and plays, poetry, 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.
Award winners
The Yomiuri Shimbun maintains an official list of current and past prize recipients.[1]
Fiction
Year[2] | Winner | Winning entry |
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1949 | Masuji Ibuse | Honjitsu Kyushin (本日休診) |
1950 | Kōji Uno | Omigawa (思ひ川, River of Thought) |
1951 | Shōhei Ōoka | Nobi (Fires on the Plain) |
1952 | Hiroyuki Agawa | Haru no shiro (Citadel in Spring) |
1953 | No award | |
1954 | Haruo Satō | (Shōshi Mandara) |
1955 | Ton Satomi | Koigokoro |
Aya Kōda | Kuroi suso | |
1956 | Yukio Mishima | Kinkakuji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) |
Mantarō Kubota | San no tori | |
1957 | Murō Saisei | Anzukko |
Yaeko Nogami | Meiro | |
1958 | No award | |
1959 | Hakuchō Masamune | Kotoshi no aki |
Shigeharu Nakano | Nashi no hana | |
1960 | Shigeru Tonomura | Miotsukushi |
1961 | No award | |
1962 | Kōbō Abe | Suna no Onna (The Woman in the Dunes) |
1963 | Yasushi Inoue | Fūtō |
1964 | Akatsuki Kambayashi | Shiroi yakatabune |
1965[3] | Junzo Shono | Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds) |
1966 | Fumio Niwa | Ichiro |
1967 | Kiku Amino | Ichigo-ichie |
1968 | Taeko Kōno | Fui no koe (不意の声, A Sudden Voice) |
Kōsaku Takii | Yashu | |
1969 | Haruto Kō | Ichijō no hikari |
Tan Onuma | Kaichūdokei | |
1970 | Ken'ichi Yoshida | Gareki no naka |
1971 | No award | |
1972 | Tatsuo Nagai | Cochabamba-yuki |
1973 | Tsuneko Nakazato | Utamakura |
Shōtarō Yasuoka | Hashire tomahōku | |
1974 | Yoshie Wada | Tsugiki no dai |
1975 | Kazuo Dan | Kataku no hito |
Junnosuke Yoshiyuki | Kaban no nakami | |
1976 | Yoshinori Yagi | Kazamatsuri |
1977 | Toshio Shimao | Shi no toge |
1978 | Noguchi Fujio | Kakute arikeri |
1979 | Toshimasa Shimamura | Myōkō no aki |
1980 | No award | |
1981 | Hisashi Inoue | Kirikirijin |
Ryōtarō Shiba | Hitobito no ashioto | |
1982 | Kenzaburō Ōe | Ame no ki (Rain Tree) |
1983 | No award | |
1984[4] | Akira Yoshimura | Hagoku (Prison Break) |
1985 | Takako Takahashi | Ikari no ko (Child of Wrath) |
Hideo Takubo | Kaizu | |
1986 | Yūko Tsushima | Yoru no hikari ni owarete |
1987 | Tatsuhiko Shibusawa | Takaoka Shinnō kōkaiki |
1988 | Takehiro Irokawa | Kyōjin nikki |
1989 | Yūichi Takai | Yoru no ari |
Yoshikichi Furui | Kari ōjōden shibun | |
1990 | Toshio Moriuchi | Hyōga ga kuru made ni |
1991 | Hiroshi Sakagami | Yasashii teihakuchi |
Sō Aono | Haha yo | |
1992 | Eisuke Nakazono | Peking hanten kyūkan nite |
1993 | No award | |
1994 | Momoko Ishii | Maboroshi no akai mi |
Senji Kuroi | Kāten kōru | |
1995 | Keizō Hino | Hikari |
Haruki Murakami | Nejimakidori kuronikuru (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) | |
1996 | No award | |
1997 | Ryū Murakami | In za miso-sūpu (In the Miso Soup) |
Nobuo Kojima | Uruwashiki hibi | |
1998 | Kunio Ogawa | Hashisshi gyangu (The Hashish Gang) |
Noboru Tsujihara | Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!) | |
1999 | Yasutaka Tsutsui | Watashi no gurampa |
Taku Miki | Hadashi to kaigara | |
2000 | Naoyuki Ii | Nigotta gekiryū ni kakaru hashi (A Bridge over a Muddy Torrent) |
Amy Yamada | A2Z | |
2001 | Anna Ogino | Horafuki-Anri no bōken |
2002 | Minae Mizumura[5] | Honkaku shōsetsu (A True Novel) |
2003 | Yōko Ogawa | Hakase no aishita sūshiki (The Housekeeper and the Professor) |
2004 | Hisaki Matsuura | Hantō |
2005 | Toshiyuki Horie | Kagan bōjitsushō |
Katsusuke Miyauchi | Shōshin | |
2006 | No award | |
2007 | Rieko Matsuura | Kenshin |
2008 | Sou Kurokawa | Kamome no hi |
2009 | Kaoru Takamura | Taiyō o hiku uma |
2010 | Natsuo Kirino | Nanika aru |
2011 | No award | |
2012 | Yoko Tawada | Kumo o tsukamu hanashi |
Masashi Matsuie | Kazan no fumuto de | |
2013 | Kiyoko Murata | Yūjōko |
2014 | Hiromi Kawakami | Suisei |
Tomoyuki Hoshino | Yoru wa owaranai | |
2015 | Hideo Furukawa | Onna-tachi sanbyaku-nin no uragiri no sho (女たち三百人の裏切りの書) |
2016 | Hideo Levy | Mohankyo (模範郷) |
2017 | Akira Higashiyama | Boku ga koroshita hito to boku o koroshita hito (僕が殺した人と僕を殺した人) |
2018 | Keiichirō Hirano | Aru otoko (ある男) |
Drama
Year | Winner | Winning entry |
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1951 | Jūrō Miyoshi | Honō no hito, etc. |
1952 | Tsuneari Fukuda | Ryū o nadeta otoko |
1954 | Chikao Tanaka | Selection of works including "Kyōiku" |
1961 | Yukio Mishima | Toka no Kiku |
1964 | Mitsuo Nakamura | Kiteki issei |
1965 | Hideji Hōjō | Selected plays of Hideji Hōjō |
1967 | Tadasu Iizawa | Gonin no moyono |
1972 | Seiichi Yashiro | Sharaku-kō |
1974[6] | Kōbō Abe | Midoriiro no sutokkingu (The green stockings) |
1975 | Matsuyo Akimoto | Nananin no misaki |
1978 | Junji Kinoshita | Shigosen no matsuri |
1979 | Hisashi Inoue | Shimijimi nihon – Nogi-taishō, Kobayashi Issa |
1983 | Kunio Shimizu | Elegy |
1984 | Masakazu Yamazaki | Oedipus shōten |
1987 | Minoru Betsuyaku | Shokoku o henreki suru futari no kishi no monogatari |
1990 | Kouhei Tsuka | Hiryūden ’90 – satsuriku no aki |
1992 | Tsutsumi Harue | Kanadehon Hamlet |
1994 | Yoshiyuki Fukuda | Watashi no downtown – Haha no shashin |
1995 | Jūichiro Takeuchi | Tsuki no hikari |
1997 | Ryo Iwamatsu | TV Days |
Nozomi Makino | Tokyo genshikaku club | |
1998[7] | Matsuda Masataka | Natsu no suna no ue (Over Summer Sands) |
2000 | Ai Nagai | Hagi-ke no sanshimai |
2001 | Kankurō Kudō | GO |
2002 | Sakate Yôji | Yaneura (The Attic) |
2003[5] | Kara Jûrô | Doro ningyo (Mud Mermaid) |
2005 | Hishida Shinya | Powder – oshiroi |
2006 | Miwa Nishikawa | Yureru |
Noda Hideki | Rope | |
2007 | Kōki Mitani | Confidant – Kizuna |
2008 | Kundō Koyama | Okuribito |
2009 | Shoji Kokami | Globe Jungle Kyokō no gekidan hataage 3 busaku |
2011 | Tomohiro Maekawa | Taiyō |
2012 | Yang Yong-hi | Kazoku no kuni |
Poetry and haiku
Year[2] | Winner | Winning entry (Genre) |
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1949 | Mokichi Saitō | Tomoshibi (Tanka) |
Shinpei Kusano | Kaeru no shi (Free Verse) | |
1950 | Kōtarō Takamura | Tenkei (Free Verse) |
Yaichi Aizu | Aizu Yaichi zenkashū (Tanka) | |
1951 | Satarō Satō | Kichō (Tanka) |
1952 | Haruo Satō | Satō Haruo zenshishū (Free Verse) |
1953 | Takashi Matsumoto | Ishidamashii (Haiku) |
Mitsuharu Kaneko | Ningen no higeki (Free verse) | |
1954 | Hakyō Ishida | Teihon Ishida Hakyō zenkushū (Haiku) |
1955 | No award | |
1956 | Junzaburō Nishiwaki | Dai-san no shinwa (Free verse) |
1966 | Yuji Kinoshita | TREELIKE |
1969 | Ryuta Iida | Forget (Haiku) |
1987 | Mutsuo Takahashi | Keiko onjiki (Tanka & haiku) |
Hirohiko Okano | Ame no Tazumura (Tanka) | |
1993 | Akiko Baba | Akobu |
1999[7] | Nagata Kazuhiro | Aiba |
2003[5] | Kai Hasegawa | Kyoku (Emptiness) |
2004[8] | Kyōko Kuriki | Natsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer) |
2017[9] | Jeffrey Angles | Watashi no hizukehenkōsen (My International Date Line) |
Essay and Travelogue
Year | Winner | Winning entry |
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1967[10] | Ikuma Dan | sei/zoku 'Paipu no Kemuri'(正/続「パイプのけむり」) |
1971[11] | Ibuse Masuji | Waseda no Mori (The Woods around Waseda University) |
1988[12] | Kazuo Mizuta | On the Pacific Age—Promoting a Pacific University |
1999[7][dead link] | None awarded | |
2003[5] | Mikirō Sasaki | Ajia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard) |
2004[8] | Wakashima Tadashi | Ranshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction) |
2009 | Keijiro Suga | Shasen no tabi (Transversal Journeys) |
Criticism and biography
Year | Winner | Winning entry |
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1999[7][dead link] | Seiko Tanabe | Dôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori) |
2003[5] | Takehiko Noguchi | Bakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling) |
2004[8] | Mitsuyoshi Numano | Yūtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature) |
Scholarship and translation
Year | Winner | Winning entry |
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1990[2] | (Translated by) Noriko Ibaragi | Kankoku gendai shi sen (「韓国現代詩選」) |
1999[7] | Yûhi Takashi | Edo shiika-ron (Edo Period Poetry) |
(Translated by) Kudô Yukio | Burûno Shurutsu zenshû (The Collected Works of Bruno Shultz) | |
2003[5] | Takematsu Yûichi | Igirisu kindaishi hô (Modern British Poetry) |
2004[8][dead link] | Tanizawa Eiichi | Bungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters) |
2008[13] | (Translated by) Noriaki Oshikawa | Rumah Kaca (Glass House) |
See also
References
External links
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